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YOUNG Theodore Roorelf flT-dollar-a-wcek
Job In th Connoc
tlcut carpet factory calls to mind
how other ions of the great and near
great ar being- or hava ben put
through course of prout by their 11
ludtrious dads.
Jiiot the other week since the leaves
beffan to turn Opon Mills Keld, only
son of Whltelaw Reld, our millionaire
Ambassador to the Court of St. James,
started In as "emergency" In the office
of his father's newspaper, the New
Tork Tribune. This means that he Is
on the bottom rung- of the Journalistic
ladder must hold himself In readiness
to run to fires and riots and murders,
and all that sort of thing. In the wee
sma' hours of the morning. But this
beginning was not made until his dis
tinguished father had put him through
Tale, where he made a spei-lalty of
economics and political science, and
where he got his sheepskin four years
ago. Since then he has been grinding
sway at the Tale Law School. So
while his recently wedded sister has
been dancing with dukes and princes,
snd shining at the Court of Edward
VII. young Reld has been content to
shine In the green light of the student's
lamp ratner than the limelight that
beats upon a courtier, such as he might
have been.
These are wise dads, but when the
praise is handed around these sons de
serve a share for not kicking over. the
traces and heading up the fatal but al
luring path of least resistance. The
President also sent his fledgling
through college 'tis said the young
man will get his diploma, carpet mill
or no but. unlike the elder Held s. Mr.
Roosevelt's business wasn't one at
whose bottom he could very well start
bis son. although, true enough, .'ohn
Adams did Indenture his boy to learn
the Presidential trade.
Rockefeller Boy's ftart.
The university is considered a pre
requisite by most of our great daddies,
few of whom had Its advantages them
selves. There Is John D. Rockefeller,
for a notable example- He sent his
son and namesake to Brown, where he
took the lead In religious work and
was treasurer of the varsity football
team. Young Reld. by the way. played
on the Tale eleven. "John D. Jr.," be
gan at the bottom, down at the office
of the Standard OH Company, after
leaving college, and so Industriously
did be apply himself to the art of mak
ing money that he Injured bis eyesight
at the sendoff. Bo those who have
since seen this stocky, square-shouldered
young man remember, most of all,
that he wears very heavy glasses.
While he was at college and serving
Ms apprenticeship at 2 Broadway, he
lived as frugally as a poor man's son,
and only lately he was quoted as say
ing that 30 cents is enough for any
man to spend for bis luncheon. His
cousins. W illiam O. and Percy A, were
similarly started In at the bottom In
the Standard's offices.
Young- Hill and Havemejrer In
Overalls.
J. J. Hill. the multi-millionaire
"builder of the Northwest," made bis
eldest son. Louis. Jump Into overalls and
learn railroading from the shop up. He
made good and his father made him
president of the Oreat Northern. H. O.
Havemeyer hasn't sent his boy. Horace
now 23 to college at all. but has put
him early to work In his sugar refineries.
William C Whitney, however, sent his
boy, Harry Payne, through Tale and
then started him in a banking bouse at
J a week.
Thomas F. Ryan has set up his sons,
Arlan J. taged 2S) and Clendenin J. (24)
In a banking and brokerage rlrm of their
own. which they call "Ryan Brothers."
His eldest son. J. B.. now 33, mansgea
the Ryan estate at Suffern, N. T.. while
fc!s youngest son. Joseph J., Is a student
at Georgetown University. to which
Catholic Institution the mother has do
nated a wing known as "Ryan Hall.
Your.g William Vincent Astor son of
Colonel John Jacob who will probably
be the manager of the bulk of the vast
Astor real estate !n New York, was put
through our St. Paul's School and Is now
at England's historic liton, where lately
has been sent the 13-year-old grandson
snd JU'5.Wu.i-.) heir of Marshall Field.
Th:s future prince of finance is now but
13 and he and young Astor are playing
hell with the eons of the r.oblllty of
Knglsnd. with whose fathers the old
college hss been a favorite since It was
founded and rii-hty endowed by Henry
VI a half century before Columbus dls-
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covered America. One of Its sights Is
the "black hole,'" the cell containing the
ancient "flogging block." over which pu
pils of former years knelt to be whipped
for such offenses as absence from roll
call.
Astor Like Soldiering.
William Waldorf Astor has gotten his
son. John Jacob V, now J2, a lieuten
ant's commission In the English First
Life Guards. While this troop was at
swimming practice Summer before last
a trooper, kicked by a horse, sank Into
deep water. Toung Astor bravely dived
In and brought him up. to be finally re
suscitated. This hobby for soldiering seems Inher
ent In the Astor blood. John Jacob HI. It
may be remembered, was on McClellan's
staff In the Civil War. while John Jacob
IV gave a battery to our Army for the
Spanish War and equipped the soldiers
completely, also gave himself and was a
Colonel and a good soldier. Before that
be had been a militia Colonel on Oov
ernor Morton's staff. It Is ssld that
neither John Jacob V nor his elder
brother. Waldorf, has renounced hi
American rftisenship. Toung Waldorf,
now 29. two years sgo proved his loy
alty to American womanhood by mar
rvlng Mrs. Shaw, one of the three beau
tiful Langborne sisters, of Virginia.
Astors In Politics and Diplomacy.
Polittos has been the choice of two
other great-great-grandsons of the first
John Jacob Astor. These are Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Lieutenant-Governor
of New York, who Is running against
Mr. Hughes for the Governorship of the
Empire State, and William Astor Chan
ler. who has been a representative In
Congress from New York. Lewis was
educated at Cambridge, England, and
went through Columbia Law School.
William took up soldiering and went to
the front In the Spanish War. receiving
special commendation for his part in the
siege and battle of Santiago.
Another great-great-gTandson of the
first John Jacob Astor is young Peter
Augustus Jav. son of Augustus Jay,
who In 1870 married Emily Astor
Kane, great-grand-daughter of the
founder of the family. He chose a dip
lomatic career, and six years ago. when
scarcely more than of age, was appoint
ed third secretary of our embassy at
Paris, whence he was promoted in less
than a year to the second secretaryship
at Constantinople, where he became
full secretary In 1906. Last year he
was again advanced to the secretary
ship at Tokio. William Waldorf Astor,
It 'may be remarked, dabbled In diplo
macy for a while, being Minister to
Italy under Arthur.
One more young scion of a million
aire family who has chosen this call
ingone which requires more common
sense, tact and shrewdness than the
public appreciates Is Lloyd Griscom,
son of Clement A. Griscom, the Phila
delphia shipping magnate. His father
put him through the University of
Pennsylvania, where he proved a prod
igy, getting his Ph. B. degree when
only 19. Next he was sent through the
law school, and when Just 21 was ap
prenticed as private secretary to that
astute statesman and publicist, Thomas
F. Bayard, our first ambassador to the
court of Queen Victoria. Then he went
to the Spanish war as a oaptaln and
re-entered the diplomatic .service as
secretary at Constantinople. While
still in his twenties he was minister
both to Persia and Japan and now is
ambassador to Italy.
But reverting; to soldiering: as a
means for. these millionaires' sons to
work off their potential energy there
is young H. H. Rogers. Jr., who is a
captain In the aristocratic 15th Regi
ment, N. G. N Y., as Is also Cornelius
Vanderbllt. Both volunteered in the
war with Spain.
Two VanderWlt Methods.
Commodore Vanderbllt did not be
lieve In more than an aSademlc edu
cation for his son, and that son held
to the same view, but the fourth gen
eration was sent to college.
In starting their sons the Vander
bilts Cornelius IL, and William It
exerted different methods. Those of
the former Cornelius IIL, Alfred
Gwynne and Reginald C were made
to rise early, wear simple clothes, go
regularly to church and Sunday school,
read Informing books and follow a
regime of alternate study and whole
some recreation. William K.'s sons
William K., Jr.. and Harold E. on
the other hand were allowed to enter
the limelight almost from Infancy.
Cornelius III. was sent through Yale,
where 'he took a post-graduate course
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In marine engineerhig. He was then
put into the shops of the New York
Central, where he donned overalls and
worked at the mechanical side of rail
roading from the bottom up. Since
then he has spent his spare moments
working out Inventions, three of which
a truck, locomotive tank and fire
box being of importance. After his
father "cut him off" with $1. 500.000, be
cause he married against the paternal
will, his brothers and sisters gave him
J8.000.000 of their share. He Is said to
have so successfully handled this small
fortune that he Is today richer than his
brother Reginald. Alfred G. was made
head of the family by his father's will,
but the scandals that have recently at
tached to him and Reginald indicate a
reaction against the discipline enforced
during their boyhood. On the other
hand, their cousin, young William K.,
has a desk in the Vanderbllt offices and
It has been predicted that he will some
day be the forceful head of the whole
family. His younger brother, Harold
Mental Suggestion as a Cure for Disease
So Wide a Gap Between Physical Sclenca and Philosophy That It Cannot Now Be Bridged.
BT ERNEST BARTON.
ITH the revival of learning lame
the division of knowledge into
specialties. During the dark ages
It was not necessary for so little was
known In any department that an Indi
vidual could cover the whole field. With
the advent of state dogmatism came the
destruction of all tlte accumulated learn
ing of the ancients, except what was
deemed, harmonious with the dogma. Li
braries were destroyed in the name of
utility and faith. A "man attained the
standards of theology and science; that
is. the rudiments of science, science
based on oi at. least tortured Into con
formity with the dogma. Here was Ty
cho Brahe, Emmanuel Swedenborg, New
ton, Galileo and others who were scien
tific specialists in astronomy, mineralogy,
physics, etc.. but also accomplished theo
logians. Later on, when scientists ad
vanced In their research, they found the
dogma a hindrance, and finally threw off
the impediment on their progress.
Since then science has advanced so
rapidly that nature is studied In an order
ly fashion, according to the natural clas
sification and re-dlvlslon. The time is
past when a scientist is an authority on
animate nature. He must devote his time
to a single branch, aoology or botany;
nay. he must choose a sub-dlvlslon of
these sciences and give up his whole
time to his specialty
While the gain is apparent In so sub
dividing knowledge, there is one distinct
loss. The specialist is prone to neglect
other branches to the degree of losing
sight of the unity of nature. The per
spective Is" lost.- Every bit of knowledge
must fit In with the other bits of the
same department, and also with nature
as a whole. There can be no gaps In
nature. There may be (and admittedly
are) many gaps in our knowledge, but
these gaps will be filled, are being filled.
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of Cornelius H's mechanical genius,
John Jacob Astor IV is naturally gift
ed in the same way. He is a prac
tical engineer and used to enjoy hand
ling the levers and throttles of locomo
tives on the road. He built the first suc
cessful electric storage battery launch
In America and has Invented a turbine
engine and a road scraper on which be
has taken out patents probably Just to
see If he could, for he has released them
to the public His young son, William
Vincent Astor the boy now at Eton is
said to show the same bent. Had these
three sons of millionaire fathers been
born- poor, perhaps they could have
made names for themselves through this
genius. But, like princes, they have been
born to their calling.
E. H. Hariman has his boy, Averell,
at Groton, Mass., In the-school which,
What would a scientific fact be worth
without reason? How could any of the
known natural laws have been ascer
tained without reason? What would
Darwin's experiments amount to had he
not been a keen reasoner? An experi
menter without reason is a waster of
time and matter. The question Is not.
May a scientist construct a theory, a
law on the facts of his experiments? but,
rather. How far can he go in logical de
ductions? Here Is a case in point: A literary
person, well Informed in both letters and
certain branches of science, arrives at
this conclusion: The state of conscious
ness of a person or the activity of his
mind and the braincell are closely re
lated. When a cell differs from the nor
mal ceil, the consciousness or mental
activity differs from the normal. If the
cell Is physically changed, then It may
be restored to "normality" by physical
remedies. If there be abnormality in
consciousness or mentality without the
changed cell, then restoration is not
brought about by physical therapeutics,
but by mental therapeutics. The office
of the physician is to administer physi
cal remedies; mental remedies should be
administered by some one not a physi
cian. Now this looks very well on paper, and
I admit that the medical profession
merits this lmpntation. I do not mean
that no physician understands psychology
(that is, the little that is known in that
domain of science), but I do mean that
most practitioners iave become so ma
terialistic that they confine all their at
tention to physical science, thereby leav
ing a gap between science and philoso
phy. It is this gap which the above lit
erary person would fill up by putting
mental therapeutics into the hands of
persons outside the medical profession.
The chief difficulty In this matter is In
the classification. The whole subject
hinges on the classification. For all this
la Incomplete. The question is put thus:
Is the braincell changed in structure? If
so. drugs; if not. suggestion. But now
may we, know whether the cell is
changed or not? We can't put it under
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especially since the President's sons
commenced there, has become the Eton
of America.
George Gould had tutors for his boys,
Kingdon and Jay, and before going to
college they said their ' lessons in a spe
cial schoolroom at home and. like their
sisters, speak French and German flu
ently. Kingdon, who is Just about of
age. Is said to show much of the finan
cial genius of his grandfather. He and
his brothers have been brought up with
Spartan discipline by their father, who
Is devoted to sports. He had a J75.O0O
polo ground made for them at his Lake
wood home and both Kingdon and Jay
are expert players. Jay, who is now
about 13, challenged France once and
England twice at court tennis and In 1903
won the Queen's cup and the champion
ship of the world. George Gould, the
father of these boys, neither smokes nor
the mlcrosope until after death, and then
neither method of treatment would avail.
That can't be denied by any one, not
even the Christian Scientists. So we
have to fall onto the symptoms. And
this would be reasoning backward, and
spoil the theory.
But supposing we could - put a brain
cell under the glass while the patient is
still alive. What would we learn? We
might find a physically changed cell and
vouch for the fact. We might find a cell
not changed in appearance; 1. e., our
eye. our glass and our light might be
unable to find any change. Could we
then vouch that no change existed? Cer
tainly not - We would vouch for the fact
that we found no change; a negative
only. In the glass we lean see a cell,
a nucleus, a nucleolus, membranes,
zones and form. No one has seen an
atom, not even a molecule. Hence we
do not know how they are arranged in
either health or disease. A Martian
might see the size and color of an Ore
gon farm and not see the size of specks
forming the soil, whether gravel or clay.
We see the cell, but not the molecules,
and much less the atom. Hence we know
nothing about the arrangement of the
individual molecules. Myriads of them
would have to change before the glass
would betray the fact. And we know
less of the arrangement of the atoms.
That was the finality of matter until
lately. Now, we suppose an atom made
up of Several atoms. Just this way: If
a Uranian cannot see the earth,, he can
not see Portland, nor can - he ' see the
Skldmore fountain.
Does the change in the cell precede the
change in mentality or does it follow?
Possibly both theories are applicable.
However, in a case where the abberation
appears without a visible change in the
cell (assuming the cell can be examined)
Can we then vouch that no ohange ex
ists? Millions of molecules may be
changed In thousands of foci and remain
unknown to the eye. Hence, it is diffi
cult to understand how a functional and
organic classification can be made. Rea
son would point out that the two differ
in degree, not in kind.
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drinks. His father, the first Jay Gould,
brought all of his sons up under rigid
discipline and It Is their boast that
none of them ever drank, gambled or
played the races. It is said that George
the greatest stickler of the family
often 3Colds his brothers for using
tobacco.
J. P. Morgan sent his son, J. Pierpont,
Jr.,' through Harvard and then put him to
work in the Morgan offices, where he has
developed a sound financial head and an
accurate knowledge of values, enabling
him to fit right into his father's place
when the latter is away chumming wltlv
Kings and Queens and buying up the art
treasures of the Old World. The multi
millionaire Senator Hearst sent his boy,
William R-, to- Harvard, where he was
suspended for playing a practical Joke.
Then the California Senator bought the
lad the San Francisco Examiner, "just to
amuse him." This was the Independence
party leader's start In Journalism. J.
Ogden Armour, the present head of the
beef trust, when he left college was put
As for the cure by suggestion. It has
become en vogue to talk about and prac
tice the modern phase of what was dur
ing the Middle Ages called magic, witch
craft or black art; only they were vastly
more proficient in suggestion than their
modern successors. Of course, as long
as we could not do a thing of the thou
sands they did, we set the historians
down as liars. Now. when we have
stumbled onto the rudiments, we qualify
our opinion by 6aying that nine-tenths
was exaggerated. When we have doubled
our knowledge we will say they exagge
rated one-half, and when we have caught
up with them In our proficiency we will
reluctantly admit the records in evidence.
We need not now speculate much on the
effects of these arts. All we have, to do
Is to read history not expurgated his
tories published by sunday school associ
ations, but the original pages.
Before going further let us Inquire into
the nature of suggestion. What Is it?
what does It accomplish, and how?
What are the effects?
Words might be used by the thousands
to show our wonderful sagacity about
sub and peri and perconsclous self, etc.,
but save us from folly. It can be stated
In one sentence: The domination of one
mind by another. That's all It amounts
to. It is a question if any one should
give up his own free will. To be a .full
man he must be able to do things of his
own free will and accord: his own will,
not that of the suggeiiter; his free will,
not oompelled by the suggester.
Should the unfortunate realize his
weakness and beg me to help him, I
would do eo in any lawful way, but not
by suggestion. The fact that he asked
for help shows it would not be Interfer
ing with his will.
There Is a subtle egotism An this ad
vocacy. I know, my mind Is superior,
therefore It ought to prevail. He Is
weak mentally, therefore he ought to bo
thankful to me for substituting my mind
for his, my will for his. Ethically there
is not half the objection in eliminating
the possibility of perpetuating the phys
ical race by weaklings, at least as long
as there are strong men unemployed.
It is granted that the ethical status of
the question of suggestion Is not settled.
A whole movement is on foot to elim
inate free will yes, a movement by a
number of churches. One church will not
Join a movement to enthrall the mind.
Why should they? They themselves are
already past masters In the art. and have
"aT.T'JEJJrOlT MORGAN eH-V
In his father's office among other clerks
and was told to ask no favors. Nelson
Morris, the other millionaire beef packer,
started bis eldest son to work In his
packing-houBe when the lad was but 13.
Hetty Green is said to have allowed her
son Edward but 60 cents a day for his
meals, and to have strapped htm so tight
financially that up to the time he was
20 he would sell the morning paper after
she had finished it, thus to get a little
spending money. However true this may
be, she put him through Fordham Col
lege, made htm study law, and, after he
was admitted to the bar, started him
clerking In a railroad office. Then she
made him claim agent of the Texas
Midland Railway, It being his chief duty
to settle with farmers whose cattle were
run over by the trains. He is now pres
ident of the road and director In various
others.
It Is all a great gamble, this business
of starting boys out. Wben the first John
Jacob Astor left the German village of
Waldorf, with his pack of clothes on his
back and $2 in his pocket, his old school
master, watching him disappear In the
distance, said: "Hanyacob will make a
good journey through the world, for bo
has' a clear head and his skull Is thick
hehinil the ears." Yet John D. Rocke-
! feller, among his neighbors at Oswego.
was known as a lazy boy, too mucn oi an
idler and a dreamer to ever make a liv
ing. And Daniel Webster, who, when a
lad. was paralyzed with stage fright
when called upon to recite in school, be
came the greatest orator our land has
ever known.
practiced it since near the beginning of
their sect.
Suggestion can be begun at the cradle,
and some get money In advance for con
tinuing it after the grave.
There are children in this city that
never got a dogmatic statement nor any
thing else by suggestion. They got every
thing on its merits; the question of merit
was Bettled by them, not their parents.
Their intuition, judgment, feeling or sense
was allowed free swing. And the result
Is satisfactory. When a child of 11 can
sense the fundamental difference between
NIobe and Salome without being taught.
It must prove that cramming "morals"
into the weary ears is not necessary. Nor
is it desirable to begin the suggestion, or
call It by Its other name, hypnotism, dur
ing babyhood, so that by adolescence the
mind is so enthralled that it knows no
will except that of its "superior," who
can boast: "Give me a child; allow me
the care of a child from infancy until
7; let me practice my suggestion (under
what name no matter) during those seven
years, and I fear not that it will leave
me."
Do you suppose such an organization
need Join a movement gotten up by ty
ros, when they themselves are past mas
ters? 1
A Litany.
Tlieodosla Pickering Oafrlson.
Not from the jooil Intentions of the fiM,
From storm or sudden death or pain or
wrath,
Wa pray deliverance ;
But from tho envloua eye, tha narrowed
mind,
Of tooaa that are the vultures of mankind.
Thy aid advance.
Not at the strong man's righteoua rase or
hate.
But at the ambushed malice laid in wait.
Thy strength arise;
At those who aver seek to spot the tair,
White garmen or a neighbor's character
With mud of lies.
Not from the gocd intentions of the fool.
The honest enemy, or unjust rule,
Or flame or sword;
But from tha venomed word; the slander
ous guess, .
From envy and uncharitableness.
Deliver us. good Lord.
' Trained falcons to carry dispalehea in
time of war hava been tested In the Rus
sian army. Their speed is four times as
great as that of carrier pigeons.
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