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■ )«««♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»»♦««♦♦♦»♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦] ; :: J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Kl NO OF FINANCIAL WORLD. i: bitter truth! She was conscious of a choking sensation which prevented speech; her glance fell lower and lower until It rested on the rug at her feet. She knew her fingers closed around bls impulsively with a suddeu dread of his leaving her forever. "I have this to say to you"—she breathed the words slowly—"will you still let me be your friend, or will she who has won your love be both sweet heart and friend?" What bad her voice betrayed? She felt her bands suddenly pressed against a warm, unbearded cheek, and a voice which thrilled her with awe spoke her name. "She who has won my heart Is my friend,” he said softly, "and"—draw ing the slight figure Into his arms— “will she be my sweetheart, too?" She was a woman with a mission, and yet, as she glanced up Into those earnest eyes, her lips were raised to meet his kiss half way. REV. EDWARD P. GOODW N, D. D. An J. Pierpont Morgan, the new industrial King of the United States, has risen so suddenly into that position that it will be some time before the public generally will be able rightly to associate him with the power he really possesses. Mr. Mor gan’s name has been so long and inti mately connected witii banking that the old association will cling even in spite of his recent stupendous operations in railroad ami iiis just completed acipiisi- tion, for himself and his capitalist part ners, of the huge steel industries hitherto in the control of Andrew Carnegie. But Mr. Morgan has long been an important figure in the steel business, even if Mr. Carnegie’s prime position in thiit field has served to obscure his rival’s prominence. Hereafter the name of Morgan will con note railway empire in America and the mighty grind of iron and steel mills. The new industrial ruler is a native of Hartford, Conn. Iiis father, James Mor gan, was a farmer boy who became a New England hanker. The son was edu cated in Boston and in Germany and at the death of Iiis father inherited a for tune of about $10,000,000. These figures represented the Morgan equity in the banking house of J. K. Morgan & Co. of London and of Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New York. Pierpont Morgan married Miss Frances Tracy. He has three chi) dren, Louisa and Annie and J. Pierpont, Jr., who attends to the biisin<‘ss of the banking houses abroad. As an example of business capacity of a remarkable kind, Mr. Morgan is unparalleled. No great mental product of modern industry can approach him. Ile is as capable as any of the Kothschilds in the money line and his recent achievements as an indus trial organiser surpass any similar feats performed by other operators in this country or abroad. Numerous organizers necessarily did much preparatory work. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. After the din of the battle's roar. Just at the close of day. Wounded and bleeding upon the field, Two dying soldiera lay. One held a ringlet of thin gray hair. One held a lock of brown. Bidding each other a last farewell, Just as the sun went down. (’horns: One thought of mother, at home alone, h\“ ble and old anil gray; One of the sweetheart lie left in town, Happy and young and gay, One kissed a ringlet of thin gray hair. One kissed a lock of brown; Bidding farewell to the Stars and Stripes Just as the sun went down. One knew the joys of a mother’« love. One of a sweetheart fair; Thinking of home, they lay side by side. Breathing a farewell prayer, One for the mother so old and gray. One for his love in town. They closed their eyes to earth and skies Just as the sun went down. « » • » THEY WERE SWEETHEARTS! ” ESIl»E h French window In a deep armehnlr sat a woman. It was evening, and a drizzling rain dampened the pane, but the woman start'd straight ahead Into the «lark lies» and seemed uucouselous of th«* Immediate environment». None who knew her had ever wees her face lost* Its sweet placidity, nor hail they heard her word» make a dH ird In th«* music of apeech. She pass««! among her fel low creature!« dropping bits of sun shine her«* and then* as she went her way, looking toward the mysterious future. And now, ns she sat there alone, a great «'alm f«*ll over her, for the mlsalou w hich she had long soirght had at last conn* Into Iter life. What should she dof The woman’s eyes elos«*d ami she leaned her hen<l back against the vel vet cushions of the chair. The Ideal outlines of a face formed themselv«*» on the curtain of her Imagination—a face neither handsome nor Imposing In appearance, but with coldly critical blue eyes and a sensitive tightening of the Up»’. I' face one could love fbr Ills frank boyishness. The blue eyes stull e«l Into the eyes of th«* woman, ami she slghtMl over her mission because the fa«*e was there. "Heaven give mi* strength." she mur- inured, an alien passion stealing over her face; "It 1» for him for him." Did she not see the sudden swinging aside of the «l«x»r curtains, nor hear the confident stride across the thresh «MT There was a pause, followed by a iteep voiced ejaculation of Impatience as some one stumble«! over a chair The woman rose noiselessly ami lighted the gas—then smiled as the glare fell ® but the big achievements are his. The figures representing the wealth his mind directs in the railroad field are so vast as to he inconceivable. A row of ten figures will alone describe them in numbers of dollars. The Morgans were early associated with the Vanderbilts in the upbuilding and extension of the New York Central properties. In this work it was the mas ter intellect of J. Pierpont Morgan which deftly manipulated those vast properties and brought them to their present effi ciency. The name which was associated with them was the name of Vanderbilt, but the mind that mastered the giant problems was the mind of Morgan. Among the concrete results of Mr. Mor gan’s intellectual labors have been the reorganization of the Buffalo and the West Shore, anil its lease to the New York Central; the reorganization of the Chesapeake and Ohio; the rearrangement of the Great Southern and the reorgan ization of the Erie, and his influence has been felt by the Pacific system. Some of the achievements which he made inci dents to his money and railroad business are the present efficiency of the China and Japan carrying trade, the consolida tion of the Western Union Telegraph and the American Bell Telephone companies, the combination of the coffin producing and steel industries, and his launching of the new Edison process of magnetic iron ore separation. Mr. Morgan is fond of the good things of life, although his most intense pleasures are derived from the exercise of his functions as a business man. He scatters wealth among chari ties with a lavish hand. He likes fine paintings and rare books. He has a copy of the great folio Shakspeare of 1623. and a Mazarin Bible. He is a good church member, smokes expensive cigars, likes steam yachts, good dogs, fine horses, and, in short, by no means spends all his time dreaming of new combina tions in business or of the price of money in the great markets of the world. on the young man standing before her with his hands thrust deeply in his pockets. "1 beg pardon, Evelyn." he burst out, laughing good-naturedly as his hand clasped hers. "What are you doing alone in this gloom? Don’t I bring sunshine enough with me without you lightening up as I enter?” He threw j himself into a chair. "What a night! Gloomy as the hours of midnight. I have the blues, Evelyn may 1 tell you all my troubles?” Evelyn Westland gazed down on the boyish face with strange wistfulness. Tile live years which divided their lives seemed like a gulf to her Just then; he was In his prime, while she—she knew the sorrows of the world by heart. As ht* glanced up. she smiled ami shook her head. "I am ready to listen. Sever ance; what has life been bringing to you? Sadness? It seems Impossible, you have such a bright way of looking at care.” Severance Caulder sighed. "You have Iteen a good friend to fine, Evelyn,” he said, thoughtfully. "And why shouldn't 1 be?" "Why? Because I am wayward and careless ami hot-headed; because 1 wound you In a thousand nameless i ways when I don’t mean to; because you are good and sweet, and I am wick ed and restless.” He spoke fervently. chill grip seemed to seize her heart. lie In love! The boy friend who had always made her his confidante. His heart was no longer free to tell her its trials, ami yet she had no right to be Jealous of the little bits of exchanged confidence. She was only a frieud to him—ami to her he was---- "A woman is a good guesser,” she said, still smiling, though her lips were white. "Come over here by the win dow where you can be more comforta ble; now. I am ready to listen." Iler voice was guarded, even as her eye» were In the light. Caulder glanc ed over to her and looked intently at her face for several minutes. “It has crept upon me unawares." he began slowly, “and yet 1 might have known in time to prevent it.” Evelyn bent forward. “Is it so un ha ppy?” He laughed bitterly—unlike the frank, free-hearted boy of yesterday. "Unhappy? 1 do not know. I am wretched; 1 feel so lonely. Evelyn.” "Oh, Severance!” There was a tre mor In her voice. Even In that hour a black shadow passed over her heart. All the sunshine went out of her life and she wondered if her loneliness was not deeper than his. "You—you are angry with me," the boy exclaimed, half passionately; "you think 1 am foolish to talk of love.” "No, 1 do not. Only why do you not go to her and tell her of your love, all your pain? She will listen to you— she must listen to you. Bitterness of ten deprives love of its Joy, and the first sweet love dream Is often blight ed by one’s own lack of confidence. Men should never blame a woman if she sometimes appears cold, and at other times too light and gay. grief gnaws deep, and woes are har«l to bear. Wom en ar«* hard to understand; their hands are tie«! In every emotion; their life Is masked.” Caulder r«*se and stood in the middle of the room. Evelyn followed his ex ample. "Will you go to her?" she asked gent ly. He stared at her half sullenly—much as a boy would look at an older sister who had corrected hitn. "Are you sure 1 will not regret speak Ing to her?” he questioned, after a pause. “1 trust not, I believe not. God help you." She held out her hands Impul sively. He took them In his own; her hands were cold, although she candid ly returned his glance. "What else have you to say. Eve lyn?" There was a tenderness In bls tone. What had she not to say? Should she tell hjin how her life wouhl be a blank without him? How he had crept into her heart with bls boyish eyes and smile? Ilow tlie woman who beard his troubles and comforted him in his first pain was -.tarring for the young love he had bestowed on some fair one? No. she could not tell blm all tbe but Evelyn only crossed over and laid her hand upon hts arm. "Hush: you speak foolishly. Tell me your cares, and let us leave your mis erable points out of the question,” smiling down Into his serious eyes. "Do you know, only oltce In a man's life does he reach the stnge of self- criticism—that Is when he Is In love. You see, 1 have guessed your secret; ah. Severance, I guessed It long since, only you were afraid to trust me with It. Am I right?" "You are right!” What had come over the world Just blacker than ever before. She felt then? To Evelyn It looked colder ami blacker than ever before. She felt the blood slowly go from her face, and a Eminent Chicano Divine Died Recently. Who The sudden death In Chicago recently of Rev. Dr. Edward l’aysou Goodwin. 8 most eminent di removed one of vines of tlie West Dr. Goodwin's de mise was due to heart failure and the end came while he was dining at the home of Will lain II. Busliy, a prominent Chicago an, whose guest be was. The deceased came into promin 1 EV. GOODWIN. ence during tbe re construction period iu Chicago which followed tbe great fire iu 1871. As pas tor of one of the wealthiest congrega tions in that city and whose church, for tunately, escaped tbe flames of the great couliagratiou, he performed noble work in succoring the poor and needy and providing shelter and sustenance for tbe thousands rendered homeless and destitute by the fire. Edward Payson Goodwin was born in Rome, N. Y.. July 31, 1832. Graduating from the Rome Academy, he entered Amherst College and on completing Ills collegiate course, in 185<1, entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York, matriculating In 1859. Following bls ordlnatiou Dr. Goodwin took up missionary work in Vermont and in October, 1860, received and accepted his first call to preach at Columbus, Ohio, where he remaiued seven years. He left Columbus to accept the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Chicago, a position which lie filled for thirty-three years. He was obliged to resign last July owing to enfeebled health. Dr. Goodwin had made a study of the conditions and life of the poor of a great city and it was through his char ities and good works In that direction that be had become best known. His name had been for years a household word among the poor of Chicago and a [ synonym for goodness and practical Christianity. I^e was scholarly and elo quent and had achieved an enviable reputation as a pulpit orator. In Sep tember, 1880, Dr. Goodwin was united in marriage to Miss Ellen M. Chamber- lain at Burke, Vt. Besides his wife deceased Is survived by three children. Paul, Margaret and Albert, the latter a student at Princeton, and a sister, Mrs. Henrietta Townsend, of Rome. N. Y. Sleep in the Cigarette. BRITISH ELECTIONEERING. What It Coats a Candidate to Become a Member of Parliament. A VERY PROMINENT MAN To the worried London voter, halt ing iu two minds, it may be a consola tion to know that, if there happens to be a contest iu his constituency, be will have cost each of two candidates the sum of 9 pence. That is the election agent’s estimate of the expense of a metropolitan or a borough election. In the country tbe exi>ense will be much more than that. There, where miles of hedgerow and stubble stand in place of a trip on top of an omnibus, an election agent is al lowed about £200 or £300 for traveling expenses, and the same claim is per mitted to subagents and to the candi date himself. That is one of the Items which make a provincial vote an ex pensive commodity. In both town ami country the ex pense to a candidate depends on tbe size of the constituency lie proposes to capture. For an everage-sized consti tuency of. say, 8,000 votes, the candi date is alfowed £300 in expenses. The limit of London's largest constituency is about £1,400. In addition, the can didate can spend, without saying why, the sum of £100 on personal expenses, and the agent’s bill amounts to about £170 or £200. Take it all together, a borough can didate may spend £1,000 on an election, and a country candidate half as much again. What the candidate of his agent may not spend is perhaps more important than what he may. A canvasser who wants to cast his vote and wishes to share a cab with a fellow-voter has to be in a position to swear that each oc cupant of the vehicle has seperately and severally paid his own share in the fare. If a canvasser treats a friend to a drink and the friend has a vote in the constituency, the opposite party can endeavor to show that the drink was intended as a bribe. The illegal prac tices act of 1885 has made the path to Parliamentary glory thorny and hazard ous.—London Mail. Owes Health and Happiness to Pe-ru-na. In 1900 the German mints coined $3*1,425,000 In gokl and $5,925,000 iu sil ver. Lignum vitae is the thoughest wood known. It cannot be worked by split ting. Fourteen women received the doctor’s degree last year at the University of Zurich. Naturalists say the lobster will soon follow the buffalo and diamond-back terrapin. Sugarcane grows in size according to the chance given. Its height ranges G to 20 feet. Two billion passangers and 950,000,- 000 tons of goods are carried iu a year on the world’s railways. In Brussels automobiles are taxed from 30 to 50 francs per annum, ac cording to horse power. Official returns show that last year Liverpool’s imports and exports exceed ed London's by £15,000,000. All over northern Siberia are scat tered men who make a business of rais ing Eskimo dogs for the market. Ireland has never won an interna tional association football game against either England or Scotland. The profits of the London Daily Mail during last year are understood to amount to the substantial sum of £80,- 000. The Liberty statue in New Y'ork is 151 feet high, the pedestal is 155 and th«* total height above low water mark is 305 feet 11 inches. The percentage of illiteracy in Kan sas is less than it is in any state in this Union or in any country on the globe save Belgium. Th«* highest trees in the world belong to a species of eucalypti found In Aus tralia. Single specimens have grown to a height exceeding 400 feet. Yale ami Harvard universities are negotiating with Cambridge and Ox ford for an international athletic con test to take place in America. It is said that posts planted in the earth upper end down will last longer than those which art* set In the natural position in which the tree grew. Wireless telegraph stations are to lie erected nt Inlshtraliull. In the north of Ireland, and at Klldonan, Arran. Scot land. respectively, for tbe purpose of reporting ami signaling vessels at sea. The town of Eatonville. Fla., has 1.200 Inhabitants, with not a single white among them. It has a full quota of officials, a bank and other business establishments requisite iu a town of its size. Family Ties. "How close is your relationship to that millionaire?” “Oh, his brother married jny brother-in-law's sister.”—Detroit Free Press. Congressman Howard from Alabama. Washington, Feb. 4th, 1899. Pe-ru-na Drug M f’g Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—I have taken Pe-ru-na now for two weeas, and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also ;aken it for la grippe, and I take pleasure in recommending Pe-ru-na as an excellent remedy to ail fellow sufferers. Very respectfully, M. W. Howard. Congressman Howard's home ad dress is Fort Payne. Ala. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. ± e-ru-na is the only ab solute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure coids, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Address Dr.Hart- man, Columbus. U., for a free catarrh book. New Industry in Australia. The culture of the olive has recently been introduced into South Australia and Victoria, and good crops of fruit are now being obtained, yielding an ex cellent oil. The industry bids fair to THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW. become an important one. Professor De Gubernatls, the well- known Italian orientalist, has been the victim of a crime often read of in lurid tales, but seldom experienced In real life. The other day he was traveling iu a first-class carriage in which there was one other Indlv'dual. He went to sleep and on arriving at Parma found himself without Ids purse containing 1.400 france. He immediately com plained to the station authorities and not long after a certain Spaniard. Al- freddo Garcia of Barcelona, who de- scribed himself as a silk merchant, was arrested. In spite of Ids protestations of in nocence Ids baggage was examined and was found to contain, besides a knife, money and scissors us«rd by thieves for cutting out pockets, a case with some cigarettes. This last object in the pos- ' session of a Spaniard is ot a susplc- ‘ ions circumstance, but one of the police thought he would try them, and to his astonishment the room full of people wen* soon all soundly and peace fully sleeping. An examination proved that the cigarettes contained a sub stance. tbe smoke of which acts as a narcotic, while the smoker experiences no Inconvenience after having become accustomed to it. The arn*st of the pro feasor's traveling com|Hiidon was so«)n Now a Telegraph Boy. effected, but Professor De Gubernatls ’ A nobleman once insisted ou his head has uot recovered a penny of his gardener taking as an apprentice a money. young lad in whom he was interested. What Pat Had Been 'Atin'. The lad was very lazy, and the garden It was a son of “the ouhl sod" who er was not at all plensed at having such had this little passage with the sales a youth thrust upon him. man at one of the downtown Jewelry Sometime after, his lordship, walking stores the other day. He had come in in the garden, came upon his gardener to purchase a wedding ring for his and said: bride-to-be. Leaning far over the "Well. John, how Is my young friend counter, so that the clerk should Is? getting on with you?" able to hear his wants without the ne- "Oh. ’E's doin’ finef replied the gar cessity of Informing nil other buyers In dener. with a smile. “ 'E's workin' the store, Pat whispered to him. “Give away there at the very Job that suits me the l»est wedding ring you have In 'Im! 'E's a-cbasln* of the snails off'n the shop.” the walks!”—London Answers. "Eighteen karats?" querietl the clerk. “No!" snapped Pat. drawing back in Finances of Hio de Janeiro. an offended manner. "Atin’ onions. If Rio de Janerio has a municipal debt It's any of your «lorn business. —New of almost G0..VMMXM» mllreis. aliout $12.- York Times. 900,000. The annual defict Is nearly one and a half times tbe entire income. When a girl Is first In love, she buys very expensive note paper to write to Tbe female student In chemistry Him on. but after tbe engagement is should be able to analyze her own com an old affair, she writes her notes on plexlon. margins of Yiewspapers, or on the Nothing worries some women like the butcher's wrapping paper. absence ot worry in other«. Too Previous. “See here!” exclaimed the shopper, excitedly, “there’s a man just dropped dead in that bargain crush.” "How inopportune!” cried the floor walker. “We have not yet opened our undertaking department.” — Philadel phia Record. It Sometimes Happens. “Curses on him!” growled the hard- worked humorist. “Curses on him! His wife gave him a letter to mail, anil he mailed it!” Gnashing his teeth and otherwise comporting himself with rage, the h. h. continued to hurl anathemas at the man who spoiled the joke.—Bal timore American. He Was Emphatic. “I am informed that your husband is a professor of language, and I called to find out what his terms are.” “Well, when he’s excited, they are unfit for publication.” — Richmond Dispatch. A Hopeless Case. "It’s no use; Chumleigh never will have sense.” “Why? What has he done now?” “Paid me $10 he owed me right in front of my tailor.” Her Definition. "What is your definition of satire?" "Satire,” said Miss Cayenne, "is something that compels you to laugh against your will in order to let it appear that you are not angry.”— Washington Star. Police Hard to Dismiss. A New York police commissioner declared that it was easier to hang a man for murder there than to dismiss a policeman. “Last year,” he said, "the board had to pay out $130,000 in back salaries to men who had Deen reinstated by the courts. The Doctor's Order. Mother (an invalid)—Johnny, don't you think I ought to punish you for being so bad? Johnny (aged 5)—No mamma. You know the doctor said you was not to indulge in any violent exercise. Quick Exit. "Mr. Lew told me that he was a Yale man. Do you know what class he was graduated from?” “From the sophomore class.”—Har lem Life. Age. A quarrel recently occurred be tween two maiden ladies. Said th» younger one: "I wonder if I shall lose my locks, too, when I get your age?” The Older One—You will be lucky if you do.—Tit-Bits. Change of Name. Mrs. Greene—I suppose the Chit lings are awfully stuck up since they got that money from Mrs. Chitling's uncle? Mrs. Gray—Not so much as one might have supposed; but I notice that when they have mincemeat on the table they call it croquettes; it used to be plain hash.—Boston Transcript. Cui Bono? "They say that Old Gotrox is barely able to write his name.” "Now, that shows the Injustice of things. Here I could write my name to a check with the greatest ease; but what's the use?”—Indianapolis Press. Germany’s New Navy. The German naval programme, which according to the original an nouncement. was not to be completed untfl 1916, Is now. it sems, to be finished by 190«. In that ye*r Ger many will have at least 40 ships, 20 large cruisers and 28 email crule- era.