‘WHICH IS MORE FREQUENTLY RE~- SPONSIBLE FOR SUCCESS? D, O. Mills Says, “It Is Good Fudgment® As 8 Hewitt Doe a ¥it Whelly Agree With Him John F, Miller's Change A Lueck Lek ba Baldwie. {Bpeeial Carraapoy Bax Fras fare, Mare 8 story of 3 young moan Q. Mills when be was a residont of this eity, but after he had nade his fortuns, . and songht to win the capitalist’ favir By congratulating him en his good lock In certain business enterprises, Mn Mills did not sppear fo be pleased over much © 1 don't call it lu wok,” he replied. call it good jodgrient.”” “Certainly, certainly,” said the other, fn haste to retrieve his blunder. I nn derstand that Buf, after all, Mr. Mills, I think you are in great luck in having sach good jodgment.”’ The story stops withoot telling wheth- er the young man’s adroit turn saved to him the good opinion of tk “1 soem to indicate, he believes that chance bas nothing to do with the business af- fairs of men. Abram 8. Hewitt, the ex- mayor of New York, who felt called upon not fong ago to score certain sooth- ern statesmen, believes that lnek often excrts considerable and appreciable in- | floence. 5 » Mr. Howitt on Bad Lock. “It is my opinion,’ seid Mr. Hewitt, ““that bad luck has boen the real eanse of many failures. I have kndwn men of ‘excellent business habits and intelli- gence of a high order who could not get | "om, and for po other reason, so far as | could see, than that lock was against | them" The late John F. Miller, awyer, sol: dicey, United States senator and capital. | ist, used to say that he beliéved in luck, | and in a change of Inck, too, and oe tainly the story of Lis carcer as told me! "today might be nsed as an argerecat by! those who wish to prove that chance fs | a live element in hursen affairs, Mr. Miller was a native of South Bend, Ind When he general education, he studi 2 his health fail 3 spend three poor his retorn to In the state camy axe, batt a ta jing he JOFIR ¥, MILLER glected to ithe state senate in 1860 by | the Republicuns. When the civil war uy « ont, he was 30 yoers old His | d tf nd tath re ol srovment, wers soceptoc, etl ahr 3 the Tvont; wolunioors br mand Haw - River be ¥ th 3 he receiveit 4 built voound in the neck, this work af Sian River ho was pro- moted to To a bi Ladior senersl of vol - potears. Al liberty Gop he charged with his brigade . eye. At tho cleeo of the war he was of- | fered a colunecley in the rogular army. This he declined, deciding that the re- | we money king: Not all men of millions would agree | with Mr. Mills if, as his remark wonld had finished hii . | How the Ce: For and won, but at the : moment of victory was wounded in the ' Nthoal sahato which you a havewill boot! mons value than the poney. 5 A Few Business. s which be had wt the Bering sen lent qoality whaling cor- momler of wo bronght with Tiwy sorpncd ch 4 Bh $iep LEN 5g thyme Bam is hast | ave is can best bo tak- 1h money to 5 v the needed ad- sw men, wiil oo north again 1d get o cargo of shine. Weean make satisfactory sreanpemcnte as to profits, and a company can be formed on my re- tron.’ Almont Miller consented The skins were sent to London, and in due time word came back that they were of superior dye tak- ing quality. The ship was victualed and | outfitted and sailed away to the Bering pea a for a cargo of sking Lack Taras at Last. Mr. ‘Miller's term as collector had nearly expired before the ship again an- chored inside the Golden Gate, and when she did retorn she was loaded down with handsome and perfect seal- skins, the profits from the sale of which were such as to make it an casy matter i to pet enough money to capitalipe the | proposed company The act of incorpo ‘ rafion gave the company, too, the excin- ‘sive right to the seal fisheries for a long term of years on the payment of a lib ‘eral tax oo-each skin Thus the Alaska Seal For company, of which Miller was the first president, came into being, and | presently he was rich’ From that time bis lock wus good and not bad His nl has ex vital was invested in bosiness | ex ‘erprises, all of which rielded hand. 80 refurns, without exception, and nover again was he a vicitm of Yad luck : But, the story oontinues, he always | trasted the management of his ventures Then tha man show, wi the collestor . against his judgment Mr. a Taras on Amer’ oi, Ertigion pnd Britie® Palit en Kew Yq cider the aad Rigi A ® Elsi, and ne Er hare ov spies to his I felt oliver subjects dean Alsenssas | pecniiar interest. he # tant 8 After annoureing impatiently that be ‘had bat a few minutes to stay Mr Stead talked most inferestingly on a varie of - topics for over an hour, being frequently panctusted statement, ‘I davbreak tomorrow for England ” “What pocaliarity of American | impressed you most?’ | asked “Your methods of municipal ment," wis the reply. “1 by govern. $it.. ob » $AER The American people much better than their | Even your system of npa- | ; GRANDMA'S CORTUHE AFL institutions. tional government is complex nd on- wisldy-—a result of too great a sabdi- vision of responsibility. The will of the people is but slowly exeonted, and it but seldom receives accurate or timely expression The government of your large cities is disgraceful, extravagant and in most cases corrupt. In Chicago especially are these comditie ME FAI pant. My forther will contain some revelations which, I trust, will shock mot ealy her own good people, but 1d Aber Amer rican cities, into un cultivation of civie pride.” vii anin po of | after hic £-%t locky stéike to the hands of others ! doetrine of lock will say that this story proves most conclusively the trath of the law of « » and effect in bosiness HH Miller had not Wen enllector, pean with the cenicking would not k gme to vm ged wit Enos the a gions v psiny a gio been got. The history y of £ of gold patvraliy & Is with ineddesd ‘of lucky strikes ¥ which snddenle raised | men of no fortune at all to positions of | wealth beyond the dreams of avarice vid an the Of course the man who scoffs at the And naturally, too, most of these men | | have lomg since lost all they got by | ! these lucky finds “Lucky” Baldwin is : ome of the wall known men who bos not suffered in this way. 1 do not know how much this man's total fortune is but his ranch is sol- LE Nobody seems to know what first gave him the nickname of “Laocky,” Lut whatever it was and whether his first winnings were “lucky”’ ‘or the resalt of careful calculation, | ho ix, as every one who has ever dealt | with him is aware, ome of the shrewdest, “‘nerviest’’ business men on this eoast . er anywhere else; but, sccording to all reports, it is supple Tek A by good Ink - BH Rie PDL os | emnly declared to be of the value of | wgerie Pr. trad Ferl Me ivect Jest oi tho W iz an Interesting onll nL thongh gp ly inferior to the “pos” of Phidade) I phia anid Ci incianati, especially as to quality and selection of the specimens on exhibiticn. It was the late General oso the Indian fighter, who virtual { ly started the menagerie some 30 years { REO by prescoting a black bear cub to ER 8NG wards of an officer of such ran wero | the city. not sufficient. It was agreed om all | bands that he was sn excellent military | man, and that he deserved something | Petter, but. romchow it did not come, | and #0 he converted his Indians proper- ty into cash and went to California, where ho believed ho could win in busi- | styl tem him during his wilitery OTT sun Followed by Bad Luck. But from the start luck apper od to | him. Ho was ccunted by all | who knew Lim to be a good business | be against At that time the nunicipality had no | facilities for housing and caring for ani- Lil, oa man, but ho could not get on. If he | bought a fruit farm, the crop was blast. od; if be invested in merchandise of any sort, the price dropped. out of sight. And so his bad lnck continged until very | - little was left of his jropegty. At last, when he thought it would be necessary eral for him to sock some saluded sitaation, President Grant made him collector of the of San Francisco. He was a good collector, but the entire salary of tho office wig uscd up in his sapport, and when his term haa about half ex- pired ho began to think about what he should do at its conclusion. He had been interested in two or threo mintor ventures that had not materialized, and he had | made up his mind that, his own fortune being gone, he would risk no other man's money in enterprises of his direction. One day he received a call from a | rather geedy looking man, who smelled | of the sea. This man said he had a plan | ‘that might be worked so as to yield a “ fartune for nll wha joined in. The col- Jector told his visitor that he did not | want to go into any scheme. I have no money,’ said Mr. Miller, “and if I had I wonld not risk it. For | me to risk money is to lose it.’’ “Wait Walvill you investigate this mut. | you decide against it,'’ was | Tr have something to show ro 1 believe will convince you. much money will be needed to carry | $ my ides, sind the infiudace of & yo. tation, : Conklin was in a great state of em- barrasament It would hurt the gen. 's feelings to know that his old pet bad besm allowed to die. It must not be. But the only bear in stock was of the ginnamon variety and not at all resem- bling the black bear, However, there wis no help for it, and when the gen- eral came Conklin showed him the cin: pamon bear, ; ‘“There Leis, general, ' er somewhat in de finitely. wy Peas Then he said: : “Why, Conklin, gave you a black ene? “Yes, ccrtainly—yes, of course it | was,” was Conklin's reinctant admis- gion. “Well, this one’ s brown. How’ 8 that, Conklin?’ “Why, didn't you know, general, wasn't the bear 1 ary f { that black bears tarm brown in captiv- . PE "ne i ‘No, 1 didn't,” said the | but if you say so it's all right.’ Mr. Conklin never knew what Custer | thought of the cinnamon bear, but in- sista that no actually untrue statements were made, and that if there were false { Inferenocs no harm was done. M. I Dexren "said the keep- Custer looked carefully at the benat. Desiring to draw o ont tre gifted editor upon a fresher and more cheerful topic, I asked: ‘ concerning the progress of spiritualism in this country?’ “Not to a very great extent. My orig- inal purpose in coming to America was ‘concluded to remain and view the city for perhaps two or three weeks, and I left only last week after a stay of four | months | have managed, however, to visit a few od goar prominent spir- : : yi = ists hore botween eharoh Christ wi spiritaalists means practical Christianity plas few scientific proofs of some Christian tenets, which are now held merely on faith. My father wus a Congregational Ans an preacher, and my Tonther is now a pas ‘tor of a church of f™at denomination in | England. But I am the only one of my . family who is a believer in spiritualism ‘as a science. In fact my immediate oon- | nections, especially my wife, are bitter- | ly opposed to the movement and have ‘Bo sympathy with my researches Yet to protest against my trespassing upon his tizne, when I changed the subject by inquiring: “What do : you think of the change in the British premiership and its bearing on the fature of the house of Jords?" “The Farl of Rose bery, he ron od, “is a personal friend of mine, and I) 3 4 5 up- fr SEN ‘don't think his attitude toward t} per -honse will differ mater that of his Pre decesior, Mar He wil 1 of the clhamle Pho UL “How asked “Well, vi tied lnngh, yeu y ciple will 1 taiicd, if nit ont existence © At any rate ‘home rule has no thi ag to fear from tin resigration of Mr. Gladstone,’ “Is it true that Am rie avs ean 3 been secared to oat your pr poss d Lei 2 ‘don mv wspsper?’ Na That pro ject has beea ‘mitely postponed.” Although Mr. Stead was by this tizoe ‘at the door, with his hat and craton, i my feminine curiosity was not yet grati- ‘fied, and to my last questica he replied: | ‘1 shall be back ir America again | mext mutmnn, when I may have more th |o-y and more time to say it.’ | L “OUNTESS NORRAIKOW. . xy a Tw Tai: the cid advocate the 3 ¥ * w Tue t wa x - 3 Flee Live® asad > its reforma: Mr. Send, with astx *hin the hered sid Ts ity pr af indefi- i | i oy | his remarks | the i must preparn to sail at | ife | , mother t« : and Groolt 2 book on that great city i sublime ecids dressod when she . her erly | ered 0 th lin fact. The eollar is high, and the ma- Grappa | id iswan's d WET TOS { Wns * Ww ' GUVE HARPER HEN AGE CONE ES WY. | o Wie Grandma sx She Cap rine Tom {¥3raste grandras pan wear yllow, . groom, bine | pod and pink if she warts fey, and po.cne | thinks sha is is dressing in a Sippant man- per. I met a sweit oid Lady today, grand- | ya young man ahing his Latin | and letting his hair grow with a w faothall This white | haired darling had 3 cape of black otto. | i E€3 . man silk, which came a Little below the | IA and around it at intervals were five rows «+f canary satin ribbons over laid with blac] ¥ pripore insertions | Around the peck was 28 ornate a roff of ! ribbon and her granddaughter | WER 2 t wien with 5 ities of Iaoe as would dae. On tiny bonnet gown BEATS FILO nl i Tp Ls Tk why J wy off onder amd the delicicns sense of bed drig handexmely ! grows old. Perhaps all t life Ba been passed in rigid | economy, whea she thought more of her | children’s education than ber personal | ey s in 1.500 18 BOT oe # 3a i ad «i sai? Ra for herself, I think grandma is right to dross ae § owe TYE i AROY Tus and respect hes of cur gradoias Faced, ami they brink down her children will pee for it Too allow themselves to in thei in ¢ COTHOTS mare of ore plaitert mat a straight } To my mind spiritualism | a : spectator. i pler sleeping out for the night!" — | Nicois, Phat 1 am sot in sored 7 aE pars a 4 Ey Tom wha, 2g Sood iced Lamb af % Er : ol, Bweetheny, tw my soothes When the pent ww obits ass When 13 ow Fosih ape Ad the hand of spe is cooly Tet, worsethenrd, bo my swe TE] the yosir of ngr love bel tedd! Eugene Field in Lassies” 3 Soliritade. What it is to be a gen ne single | minded egotist is illostrated ip a recent | French volume > a story of | Mme, do | | ceiving a great deal of com) forencth | [THROUGH TRAINS Pol ax tare I". Me. a ¥y Phi ; } oA yi AE Lae srarg i fptia way Wy huts asad sinvsiiem, OF x. mc WA i Polimean emrs S50 assess pe Erte and Willicesp ot 10 werers in I or st; ingtoh 1 be truaeferee ot Barriduamg Paseo from Pirie ia Prtadelphis »t od port an Baltimosr. WwW net W ARID, i dni waynes Ray CSeriant sof Hem adgwa) st vg, iw wi Hate aml Sever. gy e Prin 1, dut?y eyoeps semidng be Kane and interme tinte ciasons DRIFTWOOD FROM THE HAST AND SOUTH. - | TRAIN 11 aves Phatlade dpi, Ope day win she was thos in bed | | several goests arrived and ‘ted, They ail began to shiver and poll | | their cloaks around them. be What,’ it cold bere? | “it is simply freezing,” ahswere] gost. “Thank you for telling me,” wa | Mase. du Deffaot. fhe rang a ell. The goests suppose she was sending for 2 mad to build a | bot when the servant casio St Mtym, : Brvi. du Deffant said: ** Amelie, bring me in my + down oov- eriet.’” Having given this ander; she began a | cotiversation aboot other matters. — | Yaunth' s Companion. The Resistioss Power of Knowledge. I new cpne colored minisper in Bahamas who bad quite a repatation for learning. Decavse in his ® ned alternately the phrases" ipse dixit” and “ex pililo nibil Gr.” ; 1 notiesnd that whenever dny o wed dione of | fos or an Thelination Ir at tien : ih tl ast Doe hat feos would | et >. tol drms To — ery, “Ex nihilo « wounld puige as if | f about to start | fran their sore mouths | open indefinitely, and the ex ation wionid stare and wonder how eg suall small | | haad could carry all be knew." with his elegant Latin never made so Tran ey | likes, and now that the boys and girls | profound an impression. — Rev. Bersard | are all grown and have homes foe] “Hare you made any observations own, and for the first time she hes the | | means apd leisure | should wa object. to let their | | of ecclor and the gleam of jewels shino | i over ber? to see the World's fair, and I arrived in | Chicago the very day it closed I then | prugrily and as richly as she can All J. Reilly a Dosakoe's Magazine, Rare Pelt Is the Blne Fou. In Siberia the skin of the bloe fox, or feutie, is kighiy prised, acd the first | | prise for the horse races of the Anadyr | 18 a fine pelt. According to M. Langka- | val, the bloe fox still inhabits the Lap- | land part of Scandinavia, the islands of | the White sea, parts of jou Rossia, | the craste ¢f Siberia, the new Siberian entiag is the: Fog is islands and mm Amer lands. A 15 85 ; “Thora's 2 fellow rmaosinglaf with a gplendid han ank pote!” sod a “ih, hunk. It is merely a bit of w— Obeyed Orders. Buployer {to new cibce boy)—it any | one cails. James, be sure and remember | (Half an hour later.) | | Didn't you beer me call, you young ras- | | end? MANTLE AND WRAP : is and clear seme tho back, terial. appenss to be swathed aronnd it | There is alwars s beit of some kind | The sleeves are enormous, bishop shape, | very fenffa. The slecvedr der seam, drooping, with nmrow or x. the shoal tosvieh 4 WISE can vos fay The shir: ong the stolition {tan RTT CADE WD ; 8 Pale, herds rad with far, which 1 as fine as Arognd re cape there of Black lace imsertion There a fancy maf #5 mateh, for eoremenions visits and rite mi prratil lawn ‘A mantis | dressy cocasrans was made of black vel- i wet, trin i plain jacket in the back and mantle in feat, with sling sleeves. All the jet (rimming except a | sewed ¢ireetly upon the velvet, with | | heavy silk embroidery all wremnd it | The flat bertha ended behind the arms. ed richly with jet. It was a fringe in front was This muatle is His young or middle aged matrons, t. is too omate for youth. The od ¢ it is pot a youthful lane, thongh it is very beantifel Ouive Harrer deep . . wal bi tions in central Africa today. James-—Yes, sir, but 1 t'onght yer Paunch. i wasn't in.--London A Shade Too Yielding Binks Why so gloomy? Jinks— My wife let me have the last | ‘word in sn argument this morn ing. { "What of that?” "That shows that she is going to do as she plenses anghow.’'—New York Weekly. All of J. MM. Barrie's storjes are said to have grown cut of his evieyday life, asd in the young fen who ape pictured king knpeo deep in the and vicinity coe oa wal and the present life Haat your Scotchuan, is a find the if the bril- apd at the , For the Wings of a supper she ost of the wissid ber fe was a wenlthy soprano, SHEE, RM vet an Boar later at wimps, Jegs asd n a turkey apd then wore knffing. Love! tek the rlate for*’ " | i voferd strassin. iwenbuhowagen Rn locks formidable, bat se woukld the Eng- lish equivalent i written in coe word in the Gerinan style‘ borserondrail- waycarriage. : 3 | The descriptions given by Strabo of the csivr houses of the Gaal and Brit- ons might be applied to human babita- hi | For an sample of pare and a [full beard. "exc lsimed the inralid, “is the | Be MW oped exreleely iterjected the erou- that wakes vo difference to the | bur money - Paris Petit | aenther of : re Gorman vate fur tram car is rail wny. | ville and Berwinsdwie A1) i het nad Clu rtdid + tr ision of Use asalloyed oontempt take a barber's opipion of the ‘young man who is growing admit- © p= ee am Hr Ba dnb aren Pm daily ar of of De th Brie snd Tram ure Phin nod Rh $4 to Willers and EE a msport ww DuBois, ? {rma 3 dewmves Bamiorn st 235 9. eXorpl Sunday, sving af I a mm JOHNRONBURG RAILBOAD (Dally »zoept Sundeiy. TRAIN 19 saves at 0%. 2a. Jolie soabarg at #55 a. 10, srrivd wt ilseuast iba. mo 23 - mam 20 in hm Sh at lis ition 7 Sermon! aa Wm. a Mon oF wy ew a mW, a mW . ; | PeWaY AND CLERARFIRL DR. R. n ALLY EXCEPT SUND. AY. - AON pues LOTR AD, SEA = Bl . i ® Ie sub! Re ey A ME Boven rovinped oF pte MF ® M Wo beet Ell PHEREERTERRY MERRIER RERN gruugrepeen paRi LA! k 3F) Tin x 74 Train € Train 4, 7 a.m, 18 Th mw Toh w 8M, PREVOST, Greonerul Lo i Cicero | BYFFALD, — 3 TSImenL. oe es OY ime and after Poh hs, B _ arrive aud debart from hg pees ve lower TRAINS ARRIVE Bl i i i i ! £ £ $ i i i acai Ba ELEEAERE fret TRAINS DEPALAT. TW Pore neld ant! Coreen roa 5 aw {Ee Pan xeutawaey | Foi 54 Rus. ks Rest an Aradiond, & Ban and Mon senie wey, es hw AF we 4 Hwa fant, mfrmatiag Si Join, Kiar Rigel, spdmeiiir, x 5. Ris Is y . ir . 4 1 Bar Hoe: 1 gn ie Beech Cie Hailroad. 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