7
TOO
Tbey same too late, the fragrant, dewy
blooms,
Nourished where sunshine beat the whole
long day.
IMe held no solaee for her darkened hours
And Heidi were barren a lbs went her
way.
Ah! take them back, the words io long
urmnlil,
The epoken love to starving heart denied)
Ye gave a atone where ehe bad asked for
bread t
She held It In lor empty bnud and died.
t "The Girl From Across." t
"Oh!" said the girl, lu a touo of
shocked surprise. "Is It here?"
A woman from below answered, rail
tsously, affirming that It was the abode
of the Man.
The Girl looked up at the attic door
In absolute dismay. She was pretty,
decidedly pretty, and young, and sty
lishly dressed. She lived over the
way In two charming rooms, where
pretty girls like herself and nice boys
were glad to take tea. She had heaps
of friends, and studied at the college.
Why she, the daughter of an Ameri
can citizen, should aspire to medical
honors tn Auld Reeklo was by no
means clear. "Poppa," busy tn Balti
more making dollars, pulled his chin
whisker, and "guessed there were di
ploma factories enough their side the
etreak." But "Poppa eventually had
to give way, as every one alike bad to
where Malsle was concerned. So a
self-possessed damsel of 22 summers
and three brass bound trunks, marked
with the Star and Stripes, arrived In
L Walk.
And He the man who knew every
thing, and was a professor at the
college lived htre!
She hesitated a moment, doubtful of
the propriety of intrusion. He was a
great man, and a professor of Inte
gral philosophy, which Is a very ab
struse subject to take a degree, still
more so to teach.
The Man knew everything except
how to compel buttons to remain on
shirts, and to keep mice from his pro
visions, to tidy up his rooms, and the
principles of household economy, gen
eral coWort and such like trifles,
which were not included In the curri
culum of any college he had ever
" heard of, eeing even outside the limit
of integral philosophy, and. as affairs
that chiefly concerned women, of no
matter.
Then she went boldly up to the door
and knocked.
The Man was sitting at a large ta
ble Covered with papers, his trousers
turned up and his feet immersed In
a pan of once tepid water.
Oblivious to -everything outside his
own thought he aat and wrote. .
He was engaged on a great work,
to be published In two volumes at
the scientific booksellers' and alao In
adding many lines and furrows on his
face.
Life was short, but the power of man
Is great In his short travail he had
held the lamp of truth to many hid
den mysteries. What secret should
escape him? What line of demarca
tion gtnv his search? Meanwhile,
tSere was one thing buTy to work.
That was why his eyes peered dim
ly over his dull, dark folios, and his
feet splashed tn the cold water. He
had forgotten to take them out.
His pen shook a little as the crabbed
characters formed themselves on the
wheels of his manuscript. Doggedly
he wrote on, exultant, determined,
while some one knocked, unheeding.
"The Prlnclpla Vltao." Ho under
scored the headline, and began a fresh
paragraph, as some one entered "The
Principle of Life Is a pretty girl!"
That Is not what the professor
meant to write In his great treatise,
ftor Is It what he would have acknowl
edged or realized at any ordinary mo
ment I do not pretend to know the
psychological reason that explains the
phenomenon. It may have been the
retina of his eye received an Impres
sion which disturbed and dominated
fce current of his thought, and auto
hatically.his hand transcribed, Any
low, It was there, In black and white,
mJ anyhow, she was there also, clad
h dainty muslin.
He looked dreamily at the bright fig
ure from ov&r his clouded glasses. His
tired gaze rested on the blue of her
eyes, the gold of her hair1, the red
of her mouth and tho freshness of her
bright young face, as on a beautiful
picture destined only to fade. Then
he sighed, wearily.
Even then, however, his mindi bent
on the great work, was not wholly
. equal to the situation. He addressed
her laconically, as he would have
done the charwoman who tended
htm.
"Well!" he grumped.
The pretty Girl looked at him for
a moment A half stifled laugh at his
surliness rose to her Hps. Then the
amused merriment died out from
her eyes, and they renewed their look
of sympathy.
"You are the professor?"
"Well!"(
"And I 'am the girl over" the way."
"What girl what way?"
He hadn't noticed her! Her femin
ine sense was distinctly hurt Other
men's observant admiration was more)
apparent, even to obtruslveness. But
It Is not pleasant to feel one has been
needlessly Ignored.
"1 live the other side the street,"
he explained, flushing slightly. "And
tudy under you at the college."
"Ah, yea." He memorized her now,
as a collector does an unlabelled spec
' tmen in a box. Back row, pink com
plexion, a flower generaly on desk in
(root of her. Answers averagely Intelligent
LATE.
The iweet pink roM He upon her breanti
Hhe paused through waMoi whereon BO
pink bud urowei
She pinsed and sleeps whit matter! all
me rem-
She hath no need for any fairest roie.
Take them away and bear her softly forth
Where ringing birds and tender grasses
wait;
BoldliiK your peace your words are little
Iot and roars, all are come too late.
Mary Rlddell Corley, In Boston Transcript
"Won't you sit down?" he said, with
well meant polltnens, Indicating to
her, by a wave of the hand, the only
unoccupied chnlr.
She repressed a smllo as she noteO
its bottomless condition.
"No, thanks," she responded, "I
would rather stand."
There was a pause. He listlessly
fingered his pen, but his brain was
tired, and moved slowly. The Girl
returned to tho object of her visit
"I I heard you were 111 and
bnuight you these" Indicating the
grapes In the basket
He raised his brows and noddeJ.
"Can I do anything?"
"1 think not," he replied absently.
"I need nothing."
"Perhaps" she made the suggestion
with diffidence "perhaps 1 could tidy
up."
He looked round on the litter In
surprise.
The room was no more palatial than
Its approach suggested. The one win
dow looked out on the lank telegraph
poles as comrades, and commanded
a charming view of the chimneys over
the way. For furniture there was a
wardrobe, an old. armchair, that did
duty also as a bed; a rush bottomed
chair, a cupboard, a few cooking uten
sils and some chemical apparatus
grouped round the hole tn the wall,
called by courtesy a fireplace: and
lastly and chiefly, a large kitchen ta
ble and the Man.
The table contained chiefly papers.
Its drawers held some scientific In
struments and a mousetrap. The
wardrobe held oldi clothes. The cup
board served as food store for both
Man and milce. And the Man con
tained knowledge.
"Tidy up? It Is all very tidy, thank
you. Mm. Stamp, my charwoman, has
done everything I am very comfort
able, thank you."
"But you are 111."
"I shall soon be better." There was
silence. The Girl sat uncertain what
was best to say or do. Something
splashed under the table. , .
She starteJ In alarm. "Oh, what
was that?" she cried. .
"My er pedicular extremities," he
ejaculated. ,
The Girl stared In astonishment aad
turned red.
"Yes. I beg your pardon. I was
not expecting visitors, and my land
lady told me If I put them in hot wa
ter It would do my cold good."
"But that water Is cold."
"Yes now. I forgot. But It was
hot." ,
"Had you not better get back to
your bedroom?"
"This I5.lt'
And ho'ilve'd dny and night, ate and
slept In that desolate attic! The girl
shuddered. No wonder he was 111.
"Then where Is your bed?" Surely
the Man of Knowledge slept some
times. "Folded up." He Indicated the chair
on which he was seated.
"Won't you let me make It up for
you, and then He down?"
The professor started with astonish
ment "Young lady! None ha' waited
on me to that needless extlnt sin sin
my aln mlther died and she wero a
foolish wummun." He relapsed Into
the broad Doric on special occasions
when the cold current was stirred to
the depths far bolow the surface.
The Girl's eyes filled with tears.
"Then It's time some one did It for
you now," she murmured. "Oblige
me, Mr. Morphyn, please, by taking
your feet out of that water and chang
ing chairs."
"Eh!"
At first he was Inclined to rebel.
But there was a conciliatory pleading
In her face that even a hard headed
professor, resent It as he would, could
not resist.
"Now! Just lift your foot a little,
ploase." He looked at her curiously
from under his shaggy brows. It
was a child ho was dealing with, or,
rather, who was dealing with him. Of
what worth was It to resist? He lift
ed his feet and she tucked them In
the blanket, and unperceived put an
other wrap around his shoulders.
She heaved a deep breath of satis
faction when her task was satisfac
torily accomplished. The profressor
still sat ovor his books. He certainly
felt warmer than be had done before.'
The Girl, her point gained, went
quietly on, tidying up and arranging
the couch. She tripped gently out of
the room once or twice and held mys
terious consultations with the rau
cous voiced woman below. Some more
coals appeared In the room, the scrap
of Ore glowed brighter, the litter of
pots and pans disappeared, being rel
egated to the crowded depths of the
professor's cupboard.
A gentle hand touched his sleeve.
He looked round on the transforma
tion which had been going on, unbe
known to him.
"There! Now you will go back to
bed. And I will let the doctor hear,
and look In again on you later."
He saw her depart with a sigh of
relief, and watched the gold crowned
head with lta sunny stalls disappear
behind the rickety door with evident
satisfaction. Now hs would) bs abla
to really work.
"Go to bod," she had said, as though
expecting Implicit obedience he a
staid professor, already In hra gray
haired stage, meekly to obey a mere
chit of a schoolgirl fills pulchra
Daughter of Eve. Pish!
Ho laid down his pen, his head
throbbed wearily. Tho cold sheets
looked Inviting. He stroked them
with hln hand. In 10 minutes nature
had conquered, and he was resting his
burning heart upon pillows her dainty
fingers had straightened and smoothed
nnd hi a lips sought gladly the cool
ing drink her thought and care had
placed near by.
Meantime the Girl was Interviewing
the professor of medicine. He hearj
her story with surprise, then went out
and fetched the Head.
The Head, a grave, clear headed
man, pursed his Hps and leaned the
tips of his fingers against each other
meditatively, as he listened to the
Girl's recital.
"Strange dear me! Alone, you
say"
The Head gasped with astonishment
Morphyn had always been an extreme
recluse, but such lack of comfort and
dubious surroundings for a man of
means was, even to them grave,
studious men of modest, even asce
tic, hnblt Inexplicable and unreason
able. They listened to her story with sus
pended amazement Thanked her
gravely, and bowed her out
As she reached the step, the Head
coughed. "Miss Hopklnshaw er In"
future er with a nurse er In at
tendance er there will be no need
to call that Is, a repetition of your
opportune visit will be Inadvisable."
She flushed scarlet "May I not see)
my patient?"
"We shall be happy. Miss Hopkln
efliaw, to give you particulars of his
progress, but for you to call there
will be scarcely er "
Then the reason dawned on her.
"I see."
Hor features set fixedly and the words
fell coldly "It would not be proper."
"Er. He will have every atten
tion," the embarrassed Head ex
plained. The Girl turned on her heel.
"Of course, we are more than grate
ful for your kindness " but she was
gone, and the excuses and reasons
which were addressed to empty air,
though more fluent of delivery, sound
ed horribly unconvincing to the two
men, the sole auditors, as they reit
erated them soothingly to each other.
Propriety! Yes, she had acted with
American freedom, she supposed, in
venturing to knock at the neglected
door. Propriety would have left him
to die. Propriety, as typified by that
fussy old dame who shuts her eyes
to everything disagreeable that does
not prowl under her very nose."
She sat by her window while the
sun flecked with crimson clouds the
scanty yellbw sky over the way.
She watched a cab draw up a
sparse figure and a corded box de
posited. That was the nurse, she sup
posed. She picked up a book and
tried to rend. j
Night came darkly down. The
shops lit their lamps. Unmindful of
the darkness she sat in the window
seat and brooded with hot cheeks over
the Head's edict About 9 o'clock B.he
saw 'the nurse go out. Then she did
a daring thing. Putting on her cloak
she stole warily up the rickety stair
case. He lay apparently asleep. The win
dow was open. The nurse's tea things
lay about, but little seemed to have
been done for him since the morning.
The fire was nearly out Bending
down quietly, she breathed fresh life
Into the dying embers, freshly piled
tihe fuel, and, with a last look at the
fever puckered brow, fled, down the
stair, her heart aching strangely for
the desolate man, and In mortal dread
of discovery.
The next day, toward afternoon, she
met the owner of the raucous voice
In the street. Her inquiry as to the
professor was met with a shaking of
the head, accompanied by Incoherent
murmurs that might have been the
result of despairing pessimism or al
coholic stimulant. Mention of the
nurse evoked only a sniff In reply, to
gether with a shake of the head, and
the contemptuous production of a gin
bottle, suggesting a vice which the
raucous voiced one evidently strongly
disapproved of In others.
And be was lying there worse than
alone In such care. That women so
degraded crept Into the ranks of an
honorable profession, she knew. But
that he should be at the mercy of
one of these! That night she watched
the woman out, but dared not to go
up.
In her doubt and despair turned in
to the street Amid the flare of the
lamps, she saw a figure with bonnet
and cloak awry drop out of a com
mon bar and into the seething crowd.
The Girl flew bacK, and up the
rickety stair.
Tho raucous one met her at the
head, her voice more husky than
ever. "Time some un come," she
said. "Lor 'elp 'to!" and in her grief
she puled again, with a broken sob,
at tho bottle. The Girl went in and
bent down over the lonely man.
Tho fever bad loft blm, but some
thing else was fast ebbing with It
The life, hope, and the lonely soul
vere speeding out to the dancing
waves of the unknown sea. The wa
ters sang in his ears. The spray bub
bled and foamed through rosy beams
of sunlight, and the hymn of the Un
known sounded eternal over all.
A few drops remained In the hol
lowed bowl of an emptied brandy bot
tle on the littered table. She poured
them out, and hastily diluting gave
them to the dying man,
The rainbow land tn.l emerald seas
turned leaden hued. the water gurgles
and droned painfully. . . The Man
opened his eyes. . , Did ho know
her?
A step on the stairs. The dour
Professor of Medicine's broad shoiU
ders darkened the door.
"Lassie, forgive me," he said. "I
thought "
"Yes, rent thouRht," she answereJ
bitterly. "Now It Is time to dux"
"Then let me help you," he said,
humbly.
"Ho Is dying," she replied, in a
choking voice.
The gnnried face of the old Scotch
doctor looked sadly into her own. Its
rough features softened with a look
of regret for his mlsjudgment, and the
mute appeal In them was Irresistible.
They shook hands as they bent
silently over the dying man.
"Tonald," the broken professor
cried, "you know me? I've kem to pull
ye thro'."
The Man's eye wandered slowly
around the shnbby room In search of
her. . . , She knelt by his sire.
The wan faco turned paler the
feeble Hps quivered. The Girl bent
her heed. . . He recognized her
presence.
"Sin. . , sin . . my sin mlther
died" he murmured, and, clasping
her slender hand, his mind passed
back to the river of endless song.
But the Man did not die. Nor did
the college Head regard too serious
ly tho breach of decorous restriction,
for the Girl took her degree after
all.
The professor, coming to the con
clusion that his education was incom
plete, took ono, too In matrimony, and
in this bis name and the Girl's whore
bracketed together equal with hon
ors. And the heads of the college fer
vently congratulated themselves,
whenever they met Mrs Morphyn, on
their unusual foresight in overlook
ing a Samaritan Indiscretion. For, bad
they done otehrwise, their necessarily
frequent meetings would have been
to say tho least of it very awkward.
Lady's Pictorial.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Nightcaps and cotton ear wads are
provided by the proprietor of a hotel
at Vyttra, Hungary, for those of his
guests who retireearly and do not wish
to be kept awake by a gypsy band
which plays nightly at the hotel.
The largest and strongest freight
cars In the world have Just been built
for the Monongabela connecting rail
way of Pittsburg, and are to be used
within the limits of that city. Every
one of these cars, weighted to lta full
load, will carry 100 tons. Only the
highest class railroads of our country
would care to take the risk of trans
porting such a weight over lta bridges
and trestles.
Marrlag seems to have a large per
centage of success In Russia, The I Lon
don Express reports that on November
22, 1852, twenty-four couples were mar
ried in the same church in Novl-Vlno-dol.
On November 22 lost there were
twelve of the couples left to celebrate
their golden wedding In the same
church.
Professor Retter recently Introduced
to the society for Internnl Medicine, In
Vienna, a woman with a musical heart
For the post four years sho has suffered
from palpitation and about eighteen
months ago she noticed for the first
time a peculiar singing noise in her
breast, which was also audible to other
persons, and rose and fell In strength
and pitch. The sound Is said to be due
to a malformation of the heart valves,
which sets up vibration.
Engineers, as most of us know, are
famous for their ready resources In
emergencies. During the recent Chi
nese war it was necessary to get a
number of troops across a river in a
great hurry, to prevent the enemy tak
ing an Important position. There was
no bridge and there were no boats. An
engineer took a detachment to a vil
lage near by, raided It and came bock
with a number of coolies, each carry
ing one of these large painted coffins
whicn every Chinaman keeps in bis
house. With these as pontoons, a
bridge was improvised, and the men
got across in time, thereby saving the
loss of much time, ammunition and
perhaps valuable Uvea.
The British Museum has acquired a
Chinese banknote of the fourteenth
century, which was discovered in the
ruins of a statue of Buddha, at Pekln.
Paper money was not introduced into
Europe till the seventeenth century.
The Old Fashioned Mother.
It was a sad misfortune to this gov
ernment when the old-fashioned moth
er, who wielded the shingle and slip
per, ceased to do business at the old
stand, says the Canton Saturday Roller.
Young America is becoming more reck
less and of less account with each suc
ceeding generation. No boy' ever
amounted to anything who wasn't
blessed with an old-fashioned mother.
While the mothers of today are, per
haps, as good as the mothers of 80 or
40 years ago, they haven't the same
control over the children the old-time
mothers had. People live faster now
than they used to, and the children
wear better clothes, work less, attend
more parties and entertainments and
keep later hours than the boys of old
did. The mother of today uses the gad
less and says "I'll tell your pa on you
more than their grandmothers did.
More's the pity. The old saying "Spare
the rod and spoil the child," Is not so
much of a by-word as it used to be, and
ths consequences art readily seen.
HISTORY OF A FORTUNE.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER TO BE A
BILLIONAIRE.
Million on Million Being Piled Up In
Profits From Oil, Railroad and Bank
When the Standard Oil King Al
most Went Broke His Destiny.
David Graham Phillips writes as fol
lows In the Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post:
Among tho groat fortunes of the
world today there are two that tower
colossal ithe Rothscshlld and tho
Rockefeller. No one not even the
heads of the two houses knows Just
how large those fortunes are. A few
years ago John D. Rockefeller said up
on the witness stand that he was un
able to tell how much he was worth
within several millions. Indeed, there
Is no way of estimating accurately
those modern fortunes. Invested In
many ways and subject to dally, hourly
fluctuations. Probably a billion and
a half of dollnrs Is as nmr to accur
acy as it Is possible to come In state
Ing tho wealth of the house of Roths
child. As for the house of Rockefeller,
a business BRSocioite of the elder and
many times the richer of the two broth
ers said within a year: "John D. Rocke
feller Is worth not far from three
quarters of a billion, and he will pres
ently be the first billionaire the world
has ever bad. "If the estimate were
bated upon lneom? certainly as fair
a way as to attempt to value capital
John D. Rockefeller would today be
clase?d as a billionaire half on the
way toward his second billion. And
thero are in addition the several hund
red millions of Ills brother's fortune,
and the many millions of the three or
four allied members of the family.
The Rockefeller fortune was founded
upon credit capital. In 1875 John D.
Rockefeller was a considerable oil
merchant. But his schemes for mon
opolizing the oil business of half the
world were trembling between success
and failure. In that year there were
three weeks when he walked the floor
night after night, sleepless, fighting
the ruin that seemed to be closing in
around him. It Is said that his wife
exclaimed: "I wish John would go
bankrupt, for then he would set some
sleep." ft Is said that the nervous in
digestion which now compels him to
the quietest of lives and to a diet of
crackers and milk at 98 2-6 degrees
Fahrenheit dates from that terrible
three weeks. He owed the banks of
Cleveland $1,700,000. He could not pay;
they were pressing him, but did not
dare to close In upon him. They knew
that If he failed It would swamp them
and would precipitate a panic In
Cleveland Cleveland was not so large
and rich la those days, and $1,700,000
was a big sum of money, even in Wall
street.
The Rockefeller fortune may there
fore be dated from 1875, the year when
the founding crisis was passed, though
the big returns did not begin to come
until about 1885, the enormous returns
until less than ten years ago.
From 1860 to 1875 Rockefeller was
reaching out and out to take posses
sion of his promised land. His brother,
and their Intimate friends laughed at
him, tried to dissuade him, warned
him. They, too, would buy oil wells,
but they would make what they could
and eell out before the well caught fire
or ran dry. He bought to keep, bought
burning wells and extinguished the
fires, bought dry wells in the hope that
they would some day yield to the
pump. And when his brother and their
intimates saw that there was method
in his madness, he Invited them In,
practically gave them 83 a present
the shares that were to make thera
multi-millionaires. And. slow and te
nacious and saturated with his "mys
tic" of manifest des'lur. he marched
on to the Montenotto of 1875. The
reaching out on small canlfal, the ris
ing clamor and fury a airst his merci
less methods of moat .: oly, brought on
that crisis.
Until the secret history of the Stand
ard Oil company is written, and It
probably never will be-no one ex
cept John D. Rockefeller will know
how that crisis was passed and how
prosperity and power were obtained
through those contracts with tho rail
ways which mado competition with
Rockefeller hopeless and forced al
most all the oil men, producers, re
finers and sellers, to choose between
submission and ruin.
Another point in the development
of tho great American fortune is con
trol of railways the arteries of the
wholo people. It Is next in Importanco
to a monopoly of some natural prod
uct. Rockefeller scored both points.
It was about 1884 that some of tho
high-priced counsel discovered a way
of freeing him from the bondage of
anti-monopoly law, a method of re
organizing him Into legality and safe
ty. Soon the period of insecurity
passed though tho general public did
not know it and the press and tha
politicians were still howling. Rocke
feller was able to shake off his pur
suers and dismiss his horde of law
yers. He had at lose a largo, secure
Income.
And now began the rapid increase.
He was a simple, thrifty man, and so
was his brother. They spent com
paratively nothing of their Income.
They ro-lnvested It In obtaining com
plete ownership of what they had only
controlled that Is, of the potroloum
Indurtry. They developed the Stand
ard. Oil company from the single con
corn to a conglomerate of about 60
I corporations, each engaged In a sepa
rate department of the Industry. They
Utilized the crude oil In a thousand
ways, turning to account the discover
ies of science which the scientists
gave freely to the world. Soon, so
many and so valuable were the by
products of oil production that the
Oil itself cost ths Rockefeller! practi
cally nothing st all for the by-prod,
ucts more and more paid for Its pump
ing, refining, transportation and sale.
For 15 years, Mr. Rockefeller and his
group have been selling about a thou
sand million gallons of oil a year at
prices ranging from 5 to 20 cents a
gnlion, and averaging about 7 cents;
and, as tho by-products have Increased
In number and In value, they havo
put Into their pockets as clear profit
more and more of the entire selling
price of the oil. Today that selling
price Is estimated to be all clear pro
fit, and tt Is said that there Is In addi
tion a profit of from $10,00,000 to $20,
OOU.nno upon the by-products. This
explains why the profits of tho Rocke
fellers from their trust are greater by
many millions annually than the vaV
no of the petroleum production.
About 10 years ago Rockefeller's In
come waa given as $30,000,000 by an
excellent authority. He had reached
the limit of profit ahlo reinvestment
of profits In the oil Industry. Hero
then wero these enormous rums in
cash pnnrlnnj In more than $2,000,000
a mouth for John Davison Rockefeller
alone. Tho problem of reinvestment
became more than serious. It becamo
a nightmare. The oil Income was
swelling, andi the number of sound In
vestments is limited, was then even
more limited than It now is. It was
through no especial eagerness for mors
gains that the Rockefellers began to
branch out from oil into other things.
They were forced, swept on by this
In-rolling tide of wealth which their
monopoly magnet Irresistibly attract
ed. They developed a staff of invest
ment seekers and investigators. It is
said that tho chief of this irfaff has a
salary of $125,000 a year. It may be
remarked In passing that Rockefeller,
like almost all tho great American
fortune builders, pays cheerfully tho
highest market price for brains. He
expects valuable service, but he does
his part ungrudgingly. He holds that
while It may be dangerous to an em
ploye to overpay him. It Is fatal both
to employer and employe to under
pay. The first conspicuous excursion and
Incursion of tho Rockefellers was Into
the railway field. By 1895 they con
trolled one-fifth of the railway mile
age of the country. What do they
own or, through dominant ownership,
control today? They are powerful In
all the great railways of New York,
north, east and west, except one
whero thrlr share is only a few mil
lions. They are in most of the great
railways radiating from Chicago. They
dominate In Beveral of the systems
that extenJ to the Pacific It is their
votes that make Mr. Morgan so potent
though, it may be added, they need
his brains more than he needs their
votes at present, and the combination
of the two constitutes In large meas
ure the "community of interest"
But railways could not alone absorb
rapidly enough those mighty floods of
gold; presently John D. Rockefeller's
$2,500,000 monthly had Increased to
four, to five, to six millions a month,
to $75,fl00,000 a year. Illuminating oil
was becoming all profit; the reinvest
ments of Income were sddlng their
mite of many annual millions
The Rockefellers went Into gas and
electricity when those Industrlos had
developed to the safe-Investment
stage. And now a largo part of the
American people must begta to enrich
the Rockefellers as soon as the sun
goes down, no matter what form of
Ilium Inant they use.
The latest industry Into which the
Rockefellers have gone Is banking.
Thero they already dominate, and
thera they think they have found the
solution of their Investment problem
for a few years, at least. And It Is
within the possibilities that the Rocke
feller banking adventure may cause
a convulsion a greater convulsion,
perhaps, than that which shook the
country when John D. Rockefeller first
Introduced the Industrial monoply to
the American people and began to
force Its acquaintance and society
upon them.
Tho Rockefeller bank the National
City bank is by herself far and away
the biggest bank In the United States.
It Is exceeded In the world only by
the Bank of England and the Bank of
France. The deposits average more
than $100,000,000 a day; and it domi
nates the call loan market on Wall
street and the stock market But It Is
not alone; It is the head of the Rocke
feller chain of banks, which Includes
14 banks and trust companies in New
York City, and banks of great strength
and Influence In every large money
centre In the country.
The chief business of these banks is
to receive the Rockefeller Income and
loan It to speculators, manufacturers,
merchants and farmers throughout
the country. And the Rockefellers not
only are relieved from much of their
former anxiety over investments, but
also receive a double profit. There Is
the profit of the interest which the
banks pay them for their huge cash
balances, 50 and 75 and even of a 100
millions steadily maintained from day
to day these largest private handlern
of cash the world has ever seen ; then
there are all profits of dividends which
tho banks declare and large dividends
they are.
Tha Largest Scheolhouse.
Stockholm claims the largest school
bouse in the world, which bos accom
modations for 2870 children. In ths
basement are 100 bathrooms, where
the children are required to bathe If
their teachers think they are not
taught habits of cleanliness at home.
Soap and towels are furnished free by
the city.
The regular way of searching for
truffles in France is with the assistance
of trained pigs. But as It Is Impossible
to escape with a pig, proachers have In
recent times successfully trained dogs
for ths purposa
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. i
The new Nile Reservoir will hold as
water 845 feet above ths sea-level; It
will be filled between December and
March after the flood-water has passed
through, and will bs slowly emptied
again during the months of May, Juna
and July, when the Nile Is low.
Leprosy is spread but llttlo through
personal contagion, according to the re
searches of Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson,
F. R. 8., In South Africa. It is a food
disease, the living bacillus entering ths
body by wsy of the stomach, and the
chief source of the germs Is supposed
to be badly cured nsh, insufficiently
cooked. The Investigation Is to be con
tinued in Ceylon and India.
Members of the Denver Academy of
Natural Sciences, who have been study
ing the construction of beaver dams re
cently, have seen the animals at work,
say that their talis are used simply as
signals, and not, as has been common
ly believed, as trowels for beating
down the mud used In building their
dams. The signal is given by flapping
the water with the tail, and the bear
ers pay instant attention to It
Screw propellers, It Is pointed out,
havo not followed the usual course of
improvement from accumulated experi
ence, and, while great numbers of new
blades have been brought out there
has been no tendency to evolve an ac
curate theory or scientific design. Such
anomalies as the variable running of
duplicate propellers are still unex
plained. The lack of progress is at
tributed to the reticence of sea-going
engineers, whose practical observations
seldom reach constructors.
Comparing the maps of Mars, from
that published by Beer and Madler in
1840 to that published by himself in
1901, Mr. Perclval Lowell finds three
periods of development In what we
see on that planet In 1840 to 1876,
large dark and light markings were
shown; in 1877 to 1892, "canals" is
bright regions were seen; and in 1893
to 1902, the "canals" were detected al
so In the dark regions. The maps agree
ing fundamentally, show a gradual de
tection of detail in surface markings.
Some of the French papers are urg
ing the government to connect with the
Mediterranean a land-locked body of
water Just east of Marseilles, known as
the Etang do Bcrre. The connection
could be made at small expense, and it
would not only make Marseilles un
rivaled as a mercantile port, but would
greatly augment the strategic strength
of France in the Mediterranean. The
inciting cause of the suggestion Is ths
strong effort that Genoa is making to
take marine trade away from Marseilles.
Stove In Street Csr.
The stovs In the street car Is all
light in Its place, but sometimes that
place doesn't seem to be in the car. A
hot stove in a crowded car on a muggy
night, when all hands within lu rad
ius are giving off steam at every pore.
Is not a nice object to contemplate.
This is more especially noticeable when
the car stove has a noticeable coal gas
leak and Is rapidly putting a sandpap
er edge on the throttles of every
breathing apparatus within strangling
distance.
Next to the Missouri mule there Isn't
anything quite so obstinate as a street
cart store. When its services are not
at all in demand it asserts Itself with
an Intensity that sets the odor of
scorched woolen wildly cavorting
through the air.
And then, again, when the thermom
eter drops down and the snow blows
through the door and the conductor
comes round and demands your nickel
In the most cold-blooded manner hs
has in stock, the car stove can bs ex
amined by a committee of experts and
never acknowledge for a moment that
there is anything doing In its cast
iron midst. It eats plenty of coal, no
doubt, but It doesn't seem to assimilate
Its food well when a little caloric is
most needed. And then, again, it lives
on little or nothing when the weather
moderates and puts a burnt yellow tint
on everything scorchable within reach.
Such Is the car stove as we find It in
a changeable climate. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Ths World's Lsrgest Organ.
The organ at the Church of the Im
maculate Conception In Boston, which
has been recently enlarged and im
proved In many ways. Is now the larg
est and the most costly in the world.
The changes recently made represent
a cost of from $S0O0 to $10,000, and it
is said that the total cost of the In
strument foots up to nearly $30,000.
It is now 60 feet high and 40 wide, and
Its mechanism is the most elaborate
known,
It Is three stories high, the swell and
solo organs being placed side by side
in the upper story. Underneath them
in front will be what Is called the great
organ, because louder effects are ob
tained from these pipes.
Back of the great organ stands the
choir organ. The pedal organ is to be
most elaborate. The pedal stops are
in various positions around the sides
of the case, some on the right, some
at the back and some at the left
Philadelphia Record.
Mads Wolves Settle for Damages. .
A Wyoming ranchman recently had
a heifer killed by wolves. He placed
strychnine In the carcass. On ths fol
lowing morning he found eight dead
wolves and one coyote beside the re
mains. The heifer was worth only
$25, and the wolves and coyote re
turned to the ranchman something like
$200 tn bounty and sale of skins.
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