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:: J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
Kl NO OF FINANCIAL WORLD.
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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.
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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.