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CHAPTER XXI. (Continued.
"S you hare been a rich woman,
Pauiine," he said, turning to her kind
ly, lie did not know yet how far this
estrangement had keen Intentional on
her part, and be would giro ber the
benefit ef the doubt. "I, too, hare fallen
tu prosperous times. Now, what are you.
Rolng te do? Shall I see you home? Or
fchal I call on you to-niorrow, wheu you
Kill be quieter and calmer? Or will
ou couie auJ look at uiy little place
uow?"
Thea. for the first time, Tauline raised
her head; and agaiu Jack aaw the ex
pression, of the carved tigers' heads as
he auswered her husband.
"I will not accompany you anywhere;
I wos'.J sooner klil myself for I hate
of"
The shocked clergyman would kave
pekea; but Felling stopped him cour
teous! but firmly.
"Tea must pardon me; but this is my
affair, as you must acknowledge, and
luloe wly." Then turning to the raging
wooiaa, he went on: "In those cireuiu
ataaee further discussion would be use
less;" and only Jack, who was watch
ing litui closely, gae-sd what wonderful
eelf-control he was exerting to keep him
self ftviu exposing and upbraiding the
kvooian to whom he spoke. "I will give
you tae address of my solicitor, and all
future communications must be made
hreugu him." He wrote the address on
ft leaf of his pocketbook, tore It out, and
placed it on the table, beside her. "And
tiow, Mrs. Felling, may I see you to your
cab?"
She rose and drew herself up defiantly,
Ciad tfcen swept from the vestry; and
l'elling followed her In polite attend
ance. He returned in a few seconds.
"And now, Mr. Dorntou," he said, "if
frovL will favor me with your company, I
hall be glad to give aud receive explana
tions." After wishing the clergyman "Good
tiioramg,"' the two men jumped Into the
ca which brought Telling from the sta
tion, sad drove to a hotel. They talked
on indifferent subjects until they were In
possession of a private room, and the
Vraiter had finally retired, after receiv
ing erders for luncheon in half an hour.
tThes Felling turned to Jack and be
gan; "It seems to me that yoa and I are
fated to cross each other's paths, Mr.
IrBton. I have heard you spoken of
pretty often lately by a Mr. Mallett, a
particular friend of mine."
"Indeed?" said Jack, uncomfortably,
pot relishing this sudden and Intentional
InfreeuclRon of the Malletts' name; for,
ince his conversation with Lord Sum
mers, Jack felt less proud than ever
f his own share ia the rupture with
lithe!. He thought, too, that Mr. Fell
ing would not have heard much to his
credit from that source.
"I see what you are thinking," Fell
ing observed; "bat you are wrong. Mr.
Mallett has spoken of you to me only
s a promising man In your profession.
tTb.e other matter that is in your mind I
took the liberty of finding out for my
eeif. Now, I have a proposition to make
to you."
CHAPTER XXII.
Pelilag paused and looked attentively
lit the young man. He knew there was
not much generosity in giving Ethel up,
PI he could not rutrry her himself dur
ing the lifetime of It is wife, and, hav
ing plenty of true manliness, he did not
tueaa to make any show of the misera
ble pain that was gnawing at his heart;
but be felt he should like to know what
port of man this was whose path he
Intended to smooth fur him as far as lay
In h:s power; and, while he thought of
this, the memory of Ethel's face, pained
Bud sorrowful as he saw It when she
fuade to him her confession of love for
this Dornton came suddenly before him,
find be knew that the greatest kindness
lie could do her would be to restore her
lever. Fresently he said, abruptly:
"Yen have nearly broken Ethel's
l.eart."
Jack flushed furiously, and half rose
from his chair. Felling motioned to him
to keep calm.
"I asked yoa to be patient with me,"
he reminded Jack. "My motive should
excuse me to you. The pith of the whole
matter is this was the engagement be
tweea you and Ethel broken off In con
sequence of your infatuation for my
wife, or had you ceased to care for her
before you met Pauline? As man to
man, I ask you for a truthful answer."
"I can't for the life of me understand
by what right," began Jack, hotly.
'"For heaven's sake, don't waste time
In splitting straws when so much Is at
t-take!" Felling said. Impetuously. "Tou
can't understand my right to Interfere?
I will explain. I love Ethel Mallett as
I never loved, never shall love, never be
lieved It possible to love; and until this
morning I had the hope of making her
my wife some day, when she had had
fime to forget you. I think my love for
l.er gives me the right to do what I can
f o secure her happiness; and I believe her
happiness rears wl;h you. I can't have
ber myse'.f, or I do not think I could
be unselfish enough to give her op. I
might, but I don't think It. Now to re
turn to our point was your infatuation
jfor my wife the only cause of the es
trangement between you two?"
Jack waa greatly impressed, as he on
flerttood now why Felling spoke with so
loach effort, and he felt touched by bis
devotion. Added to this waa the feel
log of shame that had oppressed him
frver since his talk with Lord Summers.
"Corns yoa needn't mind confessing
four weakness to Die," Felling went on,
encouragingly. "Bless yoa, man, I know
bow Pauline can twist any man round
ber finger If she likes to try I I sup
pose she was smitten with you, and
presd her nets to snare yoa, and yoa.
not seeing the snare, found yourself
enamored cf her without knowing how
ft happened. And I dare ssy. If the
truth were known, whea the first mad
fcerst was ever, tad yem theaght ent
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things quietly, you would have given n
good deal never to have seen her at all,
and wished you had behaved differently
to Miss Mallett.
Jack jumped up. his face beaming,
and wrung Felling's hand.
"I could not say it myself, but that
Is really just how it has been with me.
I am not good at expressing my feelings;
but I know you are behaving very well
to me much better than I deserve and
I thank you. And now what do you wish
me to do?"
"Go right away for a few months.
Write to me now and again, and I will
take care that Miss Mallett hears what
ever U likely to be of use to you. Give
her time to forget the Indignity you have
put on her and her love. I shall be
on hand lu the character of a benevolent
patriarch, and the moment I see signs
favorable to our plot I will bring about
a meeting. The rest will lie with your
self." "How can I thank you?"
"You owe me no thanks. Relieve your
mind on that point. What I am doing
I do out of my sincere wish for Miss
Mallett's happiness. If you really think
you owe me anything pay it in kindness
to your wife after you are married. Here
is luncheon. We will talk by and by
of your immediate plans."
When they had finished luncheon, and
Jack had left, Felling laid down on the
hard horsehair sofa, with his hands under
his head, gazing steadfastly at the ceil
ing; and it was not until the evening,
when the waiter came to light the gas,
that ho was roused from his deep rev
erie. He then pulled himself together,
called for his bill, and having settled it,
went out into the wretched night.
When Pauline left her husband at the
church door she knew that her schem
ing had been futile, and that she could
never again show her face at Mailing
ford; but It was not that which caused
her the agony of mind she was suffer
ing. She had lost Jack. The one pure, un
selfish cup of joy she had longed to taste
had been snatched from her lips at the
moment of raising. She was stunned
with despair.
She paced up and down the platform
at Charing Cross station, watching for
Babette and concocting plans for ob
taining what ready money she could be
fore the grand denouement came. She
knew her jewels must be worth at least
five thousand pounds, and, though some
of them were heirlooms, and others had
been bought with money obtained by her
dishonesty, she would not soruple to ap
ply them to her personal use. Then she
would draw at once two thousand from
her bankers. She would go and do this
personally lest they might scruple to pay
so large a sum on a check. And so she
laid her miserable plans, refusing to
listen for one moment to the prompting
of her better nature, which would even
now suggest her return to the husband
whose only sin had been his poverty.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Notwithstanding all Felling's efforts,
the story soon got into the newspapers,
and, it being the dull season, was seized
upon with avility by the gossip purvey
ors. It was "dished" and "redished"
day after day, with numberless' distor
tions, exaggerations and additions. One
society journal had it that the beautiful
Miss M of M Park, in Exbrldge-
shire, had attempted to poison her hus
band, to whom she had been secretly
married only a month or two, in order to
become the wife of a celebrated It. A.,
with whom she had fallen deeply In love;
while another declared that the husband
presented himself at the altar with pis
tols, and, dragging his would-be succes
sor outside the sacred edifice, insisted
upon a duel there and then, and wound
ed him dangerously In the shoulder, and
that the unfortunate man now lay In a
most critical condition, while the hus
band had carried off his reluctant bride,
a veritable prisoner, on board his yacht,
for a twelvemonth's cruise in the Pa
cific. At last Felling, annoyed beyond meas
ure at these absurd stories, decided to
lay bare the truth. With the assistance
of his lawyer, he drew up a concise state
ment of the real facts, giving his own
and Pauline's name in full, but suppress
ing Jack's. He carefully conveyed the
Idea that Pauline believed him to be
dead, and gave the circumstance to her
change of name as sufflcient to account
for his not having discovered her exist
ence since his return from Africa. This
he sent to two of the daily newspapers,
and, thus divested of all mystery, the
story lost Its charm, and no longer af
forded any Interest.
Felling sent one of these newspapers,
with his own letter specially distinguish
ed, to Ethel by post, and the next morn
ing he called In Buckingham street to
make matters clearer.
Ethel's frank candor once more over
came the difficulties of the situation; she
stood at the top of the stairs with her
hands outstretched and her face bright
with friendly interest
' I have been longing to see you," she
b. gan, warmly, as they entered the room;
"we have both so much that is wonder
ful to tell each other:"
She loked at him steadfastly as he
stood In the light from the window, and
what she saw In his face quickened her
pulse with a sudden pity, but she would
not give way to the Impulse that urged
her to console him. She went on, a lit
tle hurriedly at first:
"I can see that your pleassnt news Is
in eome way mixed up with painful
thonghts; so, as mine is altogether pleas
ant, I shall speak first To begin papa
came home list night, and he has brought
the most wonderful news; It Is like a
fa ry tale! I dn't suppose yoa know yet
that your wife is my coslnT Captain
Felling Harted at the words "I knew
you would be greatly pleased. My fath
er Is not really Mr. Mallett his true
name Is Sir Geoffrey Mailing, and be Is
your wife's ancle. Ia aome extraordinary
way, which papa will explain, the whole
of the Mallingford property comes to
him in the event of Pauline's marrying
under twenty-five without her guardian's
consent; so, you see, we are going to be
very great people. I believe my mother
was not so well born as papa, aud the
late baronet was so angry when he
heard of the marriage that he disinherit
ed papa, who at once changed his name
ami worked hard to keep his wife. I
hope you are not nngry with us because
we are going to take away your wife's
wealth. Of course that is only non
sense! I know you are not angry; I've
heard you say oftui how glad you would
have beeu to share what you have with
her."
Ethel paused. Felling did not speak,
and she feit a little anxious. She had
unintentionally stumbled upon the sub
ject; but she knew it could not be
avoided between them, so she screwed
up her courage and went on:
"Perhaps I should not say what I am
going to say; but no real harm can come
from straightforwardnes. We have been
such good friends in the past that we
need not stay to pick and choose our
words to each other, need we? I want
to congratulate you on the recovery of
your wife; but there is something in your
face that checks me. Will you tell me
all about it?"
"I can't tell you a!! about It," he sadi.
"I only know that my wife refused to
have anything to do with me, and that
she is now in Paris."
"If I were you I should go to Paris,
too."
"I suppose I ought in fact, I know
I ought and I have tried to make up
my mind to go; but I cannot."
For an instant he dropped his head
upon hishand, and a great rush of pity
set Ethel's heart beating oddly. He
pulled himself together with au impa
tient exclamation.
"What a bore you must think me!"
he said, quickly. "Let us drop the sub
ject. If I ever find you can help me In
any way, I will come ao you at once. As
things ore now, the less said the better.
Aud so you are to possess the wealth
which Pauline has forfeited? I am very
glad very, very glad on all accounts
but one."
"And that is?"
"It will make Dornton's task harder."
The blood rushed over Ethel's face in
a quick flush, and it left again as quick
ly. "I don't know what you mean," she
said.
"I mean that Dornton was beguiled by
my unhappy wife into doing as he did,
that he was not master of his own ac
tions, and that he would give a very
great deal to be assured of your entire
forgiveness. He has loved you all through
his mad folly. He told me so himself
on the very day of the wedding, before
be could have known anything of the
change In your worldiy affairs; so, when
you think of him in the future, you must
not believe he was governed by merce
nary considerations."
"Thank you for your kind defense of
him," she responded, rising as her fath
er entered the room. "1 will remember
to do as you say;" and she turned gayly
to the door. "And now let me intro
duce you to Sir Geoffrey Mailing of
Mallingford Park."
A few weeks later Ethel and her
father were settled nt Mallingford. All
the necessary legal formalities had been
gone through, and the county families
had called upon Sir Geoffrey and his
daughter. Lord Summers had suggest
ed that the baronet should have a publlo
reception; but Sir Geoffrey had sternly
and emphatically opposed any such dem
onstration. So father and daughter had
come down and been met at the railway
station by the family carriage, and had
gone quietly to their respective roms.
after shaking hands with a few of tlie old
servants whom Sir Geoffrey remembered
in his brother's time, and had eaten their
first dinner at Mallingford as if they
had but just returned from a short visit.
(To continued.)
Population ot'th1) Philippines.,
The density of population In tha
Philippines Is 07 per square mile. The
inhabitants are usually found on or
near the coast, except In the island of
Luzon, where about half the people
live in the two rich valleys In the In
terior. Only one-seventh of the civil
ized population live inliind, but the
wild peoples are confined almost en
tirely to the interior. In the archi
pelago there are 13,400 barrios or vil
lages, with an avemge population of
.100 Inhabitants. '1 he average size of
the barrio varies widely In different
provinces. A number of adjacent bar
rios form a pueblo or municipal unit,
and thus there Is practically no rural
population. Three-fifths of the popu
lation live In villages of less than
1,000 Inhabitants and 4 per cent In
towns of over 5,000. There nre four
towns with a population exceeding
10,000 each, and 35 with a population
exceeding 5,0o0. Manila Is the only
Incorporated city In the islands, and
its inhabitants number 2lrJ,'.Ci.
Iiored There.
"Didn't you used to board with us
up to Mrs. Gadfly's?" asked the thin
necked man.
"Yes," replied P.rlghtman, curtly.
"Why, don't you board there still?"
"Because I was." Philadelphia
Press.
He Waited No l.nngfr.
"You may refuse me now," said the
persistent suitor, "but I can wait 'All
things come to him who waits.' "
"Yes," replied the dear girl, "and I
guess the first thing will be father; I
hear him on the stairs." Philadelphia
ledger.
Pi-ogre.
"How are you coming on with your
new system of weather prediction?"
"Well," answered the prophet cheer
ily; "I can always get the kind of
weather all right, but I haven't quite
succeeded in hitting the dates exact
ly." Washington Star.
Paid at the Hrcakfmt Table.
"Eiplorera s.ny there's something
awful In the alienee of the polar re
gions," "Well, why don't they take their
wives along?" Atlanta Constitution.
LABOR TRAINING SCHOOL.
.uthough less than tweuty years
have passed since It was first proved
lu Richmond, Va., that there were com
mercial possibilities In tie overhead
trolley, the profession of electric rail
roading has already become so well es
tablished that all sorts of young men
are getting into It. It Is again reported
this fall from several districts of the
Middle West that male school-teachers
can hardly be secured because the
young fellows who formerly taught In
the rural schools are now all In service
as conductors or niotormen. From the
country towns lu the East, too, there is
all the time going on an exodus among
the most capable men to the offices of
the transportation companies In the
cities. Such are the opportunities
which the extension of urban and ln
terurban lines have made that even
women in some cases, as recently In
Indianapolis, have attempted to quali
fy as conductors, and though In this
Instance they proved unsuccessful, no
body dares to predict that five or fif
teen years hence the patrons of some
American road may not be handing
over their nickels to uniformed con
ductors In petticoats.
A large proportion, certainly, of
those who thus Join the ranks do so
with the expectation of rising from
the car platform to the higher paid
positions of responsibility. Although
the wages paid employes by the elec
tric roads are good for the class of
work, the opportunities for advance
ment are what are especially attract
ing a superior class of men. Thou
sands, undoubtedly of the ambitious
have been Incited by the example of
street railway kings of today, who
only a few years ago occupied humble
positions at small wages.
A large percentage comes from the
country. It has indeed been the expe
rience of the elevated management
that the lads from the smaller places
are apt to pass very creditable phys
ical examinations and to develop Into
high-grade employes.
Remarkable diversity as to former
occupations exists among the men
whom the visitor to Boston notes as
polite conductors or niotormen In well
cut uniforms. Many, of course, report
simply that they have all their lives
been farming or helping their parents
on the farm, but among the hundreds
of new ones taken on each year are to
be found the names of men who mint
have been through stirring adventures
before they undertook the useful task
of collecting nickels. From the United
States army and. navy there Is notice
able a regular drift to the service of
the Boston company. Several score of
former soldiers or sailors pass their
examinations every year and enter the
industrial ranks under the leadership
of that veteran of the Spanish war,
Major General William A. Bancroft,
president of the elevated company.
Those, too, who have been good serv
ants of Uncle Sam are likely to con
tinue to be good soldiers. They find
In their new occupation opportunities
for advancement which nre Impossible
In army and navy, for there exists In
It no Impassable barrier between com
missioned aud non-commissioned offi
cers. The most efficient men may go
right from the bottom to the top, as
Indeed every division superintendent
of the road has.
If men from the government service
turn up often at the elevated com
pany's famous training school lu the
Sullivan square terminal, hardly less
frequently do people from callings
which would not seem exactly to pre
pare for street railroading present pa
pers of application and recommenda
tion. School-teachers and superintend
ents, weary of the deadening grind of
the schoolroom, have lately been ap
pearing In considerable numbers. They
know that In the chosen vocation the
nine devotion that was shown In
teaching will eventually reward them
much better. Collie students, too, en
ter the service, some for a few months
In the summer and others those of the
type that the company most approves
for permanent work.
It would be hard to say Just bow
many ex-clergymen are taking up nick
els Instead of presenting contribution
boxes on the lines running In and out
of the New England metropolis. There
Is, at any rate, a considerable num
ber of them. Some are men who be
came discouraged In the disheartening
task of maintaining a congregation In
town of diminishing population and
lessening regard for religious tradi
tions, and they turn to the conductor's
calling as one which gives outdoor life,
exercise of intelligent and abundant
opportunity to practice the Christian
virtues. Occasionally a minister takes
the examinations because he has torn
throat trouble which prevents his go
ing ou with his preaching. Chicago
Chronicle.
A Tithe-Collector.
When any one, even the minister,
attempted au argument with Miss
Marie Illggins, he was pretty sure to
find himself worsted In the end.
The minister objected at times to
the firm manner In which Miss Illg
gins placed his duty before him at
every opportunity, although he had a
great respect for her character.
"I can't see my way to preaching a
sermon on tithes Just yet," he said,
meekly, one day, when Miss Illggins
had been making him a long call.
"The people haven't much money, you
know, Miss Illggins, and they can't
divide up other things very well. Even
you couldn't, always. Suppose, for In
stance, you should go home and find
your hens had laid fifteen eggs, how
would you manage to give a tenth of
them to the Lord?"
"I should come back and take you
and your wife home to tea with me,"
said Miss Illggins, with a grim smila.
"and I guess when I'd made a scram
ble of six of those eggs and set you
two down to It, the Iord would get
Ills tithe fast enough."
Chicago has a noble, If somewhat
odorous, waterway, called Bubbly
Creek. The stockyards discharge
into it. It has been discovered that
the famous stream will burn. Says
a local paper: "That this historic sec
tion of the city's commercial water
way can bubble and does bubble, and.
that It can exude smells compared to
which a rendering plnnt is as a fra
grant morn In budding June, and does,
so exude, has long been a matter of I
local history, If not pride.' But that
the famed old swimming pool can be t
converted Into kinetic heat energy by j
the mere application of a match has ,
remained for the Weekly Health Bui- j
letin to disclose." It Is now proposed
to set the river on fire!
The Japanese are making great
strides In the art of advertising. The
agents of the government tobacco
monopoly offering their wares In Man
churia declare that their cigarette !
"administers life," "supports the' spir
its"; "this cigarette of government
manufacture is sweet and of good
quality, famous, ouce tried always to
liked"; "will cause the smoker to feel
as if In a dream like unto the Moun
tain Woo-Sban."
A case has been reported lu Ger
many which suggests the curative
value of fear. The subject, an old
woman, had been bedridden ou ac
count of paralysis for teu years. Last
August a tempest burst lu the region
where she lived. Hall destroyed the
vineyards. A gale shiwk the houses.
Premature darkness settling down
caused general terror. The old para
lytic, Influenced by fear, leaped from
her bed. There has been no relapse,
and she may be set down, perhaps, as
the only case of cure by tempest.
Dr. tfanlel Murphy, the Roman
Catholic archbishop of Tasmania, who
recently celebrated his ninety-first
birthday and the diamond Jubilee of
his episcopate, once made a Jest that
amused the late Pope I.eo. At the
close of a farewell audience In the
early '80s the Pope said: "Well,
brother, I suppose this Is the last
time we shall meet In this world."
But In the early 'lHs Dr. Murphy
turned up again at the Vatican, re
minded Pope I-eo of his pessimistic
prophecy, and added: "So you see
you are not Infallible after all."
A handy word much misused In phe
nomenon. The Ixmdon Globe once
benrd a man. explaining Its meaning
to a friend. He did It as follows:
"Now, If you sec a cow in a medder,"
he said, didactically, "that's not a
phlnomeena. It's a pretty animal and
what not, but It ain't a phinnmeena.
And If you see a thistle In a medder,
that ain't a phlnomeena. Nor If you
see a lark In the medder, that ain't a
phlnomeena. It's a pretty bird and
what not, but It ain't a phlnomeena.
But if you were to see that cow sit
ting on that thistle and singing like
that lark, that would be a phlno
meena." His friend said, yes, be saw
now.
Rot a Comfortable Seat.
Coakey He Is now, they say, upon
the very pinnacle of success and pros
perity, and yet he Isn't happy.
Jokeley Well, that's not altogether
surprising. Did you ever sit on a pin
nacle of any sort? Philadelphia
Press,
PEN PICTURE OF ROOT.
A Washington Correspondent D
acrlbea Great Lawyer-Statesman.
A Washington correspondent who
has studied Secretary Hoot Impartial
ly and thoroughly presents this pan
picture of him:
Boot Is not a popular idol. He
probably never will be. He lacka hu
man maguetlsm. He is cold, atern,
calculating, hard, astute, deliberate,
conservative, reticent. None of these
adjectives are to be found In the de
scription of a popular idol such aa Mr.
Roosevelt. What other mn have done
In the possession of other qualities Mr.
Boot will do by sheer force of Intel
lect, concentration, devotion to public
duty and remarkaule constructive and
executive ability. His will bo a con
quest of brains and ability, If conquest
It proves to be.
Take a close view of him here at
Washington and learn the method and
mauner of the man. You cannot study
him In the social atmosphere, In the
atmosphere of club or popular resort
You must have some business that
Is his business, business that will
bring you in contact with him tn his
work, for he does nothing now but
work. This is literal. Ask the mes
sengers of the State Department, who
used to go home at 4 o'clock every
ELI II U ROOT.
afternoon and are now found at their
places at 7 o'clock In front of the
closed doors of their chief. Ask his
secretary, who nightly carries a big
leattivr portmanteau of papers to his
hotel and who never leaves his room
until within an hour of the change of
days. Ask the night watchman about
the State, War and Navy Building
when, lu the 20 or more years of
their service, have they paced the
halls of the big granite structure to
meet face to face a Secretary of State
hurrying from his work to the even
ing meal.
To the State Department he has
brought all of the wonderful resources
of his great mind. The State Depart
ment Is his client, nnd as such has
taken the place of the millionaire
clients he had in Gotham.
Stop by step in days of work from
9 o'clock each morning until 7 o'clock
each evening, he is familiarizing him
self with thy case of the State Depart
ment. In time he will have mastered
It to his satisfaction. Then he will go
before the committees of the Congress
to plead it. Already some of the
remedies he wants applied are known.
He will watch ms case with jealous
care and answer with unanswerable
arguments every urging against what
he wants. To this task he will bring
all of his wonderful natural ability,
all of the training of the foremost law
yer of the country and perhaps of the
world, and all of tin; training he has
had as a public man who deals with
men and affairs.
In New York City In the 14 months
Root was out of public life and In the
Interim between his occupancy of the
place as War Minister and Foreign
Minister he built up a law practice
which was approaching the $300,000
per annum mark measuivd by the re
turns received. This practice was sec
ond, perhaps, in remunerative returns
to that of no other man. William Nel
son Cromwell got the largest single
fee for any onv case the Panama
Canal Company of France sale to the
United States, $MHm,O00 and It lJ
said that Mr. Dill, who was the great
est organizer of trusts or legal adviser
of the organizers of trusts, made as
high as $200,000 In a single year, but
it was a "boom" year for the combina
tion of Independent enterprises.
Mr. Root gave up all the brilliant
prospects for financial advantage and
comes to Washington only reasonably
rich. He comes because of the op
portunity of Impressing his iersonaIty
on the history of tlw country to which
he gives of his talents, lie comes bacl
because of a patriotic duty and a be
lief that wheu called men of his parts
should give the best they have to the
republic.
America's I. argent I. nnd Owner.
William Cornell Green Is known as
"the largest landowner In America."
His holdings in Arizona and in the
State of Sonora, Mexico, amount to
about 2,oii0,000 acres. Including some
of tiie most valuable copper-producing
land on the continent. It was while
raiding cattle In Arizona that he be
came Interested In some mines which
Senator Clark, of Montana, and other
big copper men refused to purchase.
The properties turned out to be enor
mously rich, and now Green Is many
times a millionaire.
Rare fare for Vanity.
"Did you Fee my picture In tbla
morning's paper?" asked the public
man.
"No," said the wit. shrieking with
laughter. "What were you cured of?
Ha, ha!"
Of vanity, after I saw the picture,"
answered the other, sadly. Cleveland
Leader.