Show T T T T T r T S HUGE ff FAILURES THA T V iBi S 5 ff L y v i V N N iNI ny r A AM Ai No Not t M tI 11 Ji M 4 i SUCCESSES OP TUB TilE FAILURES j ti k it I r joseph Letter I lter for tor I Tho millions former made millions upon ullon t Arthur I railroad 1118 The farmer made enough out of ot I forced or e into band of or lower freight intes to 10 pay for or such uch a II line IIno 1 Theodore II n Price tailed failed for tor fhe cllon grower Rot got his touch of ot through e II bull campaign I I Georgo H 1 Tho former lot lost a t within six months 3 I u 0 t a I w I 0 till IN big high opportunity to 10 sot rot out with a n prom 11 on the toll roll of ot failures tiro I rom Om tho began to tu tut climb u It advanced slowly at nt names of 0 t Letter I citE Phil Phillips then thell more Inor rapid and then by lips II Thoy of n and breaks b k Doz t Hi Known 1111 lit n f If f W ins men n whO Mho hurled mil millions cup cap captains lio planned great but Lut w who ho had their heIr t Moscow camp other othern Waterloo a did that nd Their fame wan Hoot Wilt at n yot t tt V but r Ing and th Y Ib t better than they th y Knew in III their u auM and a there 4 eM wider ld more uvo mom enduring th than or 01 their fc tell j tow re lIz OB lUtI no thought ot of philanthropy In their schemes says anys tho eMmo Herald yet their hell on iKe e has lini s sQ altered a n biond tr er field and moio mOIe than s Ire arc not cJ rd at nl trtat Hit e lt yut ut they the have taught mOle moie men lien than have a bundled s n II crown of 0 golden OIen ain tho scepter In tho domain or IrM rl e of the world of olt n tho Iho ri l rl of HUPP of 0 tho Iho tails To 10 ea h and all dl lei came at nt tho step stepto to the throne rYu me so HO pool n III to 10 todo do r wn ren to 10 th thIt m those who benu benuM h no M lit il d roost mo t the benefactors All the tha bo md the mort itt age that at nto lil hlA jearly harvest and ho how will w tap hl or chest or show hol his hIli auau d han lIale him what boomed th in PI of orn rn und I nd cotton when wheat t nl 3 n he will tell you U the tho do doli li I greater tin nation Jill lion richer and nn Is becoming more ure t pendent upon us ua for to l supplies sk him who ho lowered tho lion ion from the farm to the ship ide end and h he will tell you of or commIssIons and political nd ul farmers alliances In each enell nd eny ho In Is tight rIght bill bu only in tart for tor h hI never had never will know how the tho then n who ho failed worked for tor his hla uplift and free IreI silver were Jut but tho roan Of lie follower cf ot the POH NOli The medicine of ot money I was wa the Ih surest sorest euro cur for lor Ills er r Price and Stilwell phy lans to 10 tho patient Theirs was WaH a 1 firm of or absent treatment peculiarly WIng to 10 the i time tho conditions No 0 one ran can tell how liou much of filth that thai has hM come to the producer J due to 10 Ilie Ihm tour four ll ro tO one ran measure what will bo be tho ln In he future through tho moro more of ot the crops the hotter bolter knowledge the tar far farr Ir r hai of hl power h tho he has been beon able to In e and the burdens ha he lias hns been bIt to throw oft off GRAIN D I Of Ot the four m mn n Joseph Idler Is III tho I ost unus character What Bel him Into the tho maelstrom of or wheat ui II aion ian lIn tell He Ho had teen ern reared In luxury Iu un was the tho heir to illions ns aM nl to Indulge II prk l rha s h wanted excite p teat t or o 0 tho he Is mado mato I Returning from a lune yachting f In the Quit of ot Mexico ho began begani i tbt tb spring of ot 1897 the most mORt remark N grain deal d al In history Ho lIo was n pouce but soon ROOn developed abilities I h stamped him as n rea t leader me The t lot of or wh at nt he hI eil as at m cents a bUshel The Iho mar P PI ai U hea y and seemed to have hao no power POI r AH As It sagged ed he to his hili purchases The r c to 6 61 t 4 cents All thin Ime th the nAm young HUS lIus taking n 1 In the mar II i and ana ai u waiting only for tor A good M M llA io g u III r employment Hb was ns adroit and BH nil quick ax the r When tho was more moti rapid than Letter thought reasonable he hI wan Willi wana Willia a seller unloading part of or bin hla lation and gathering In III only to tn buy again at a II lower when unable to absorb amount of grain offered lit UI had mapped d out OUI his hili and AMIS working one miJ That as n lorner omer such urh had be n neon before At ono time ho was long bushels of 0 He lie was Wall absolute master of or the grain hod and ond had hundreds of 0 men mell so completely nf ot his hili that ho could ruin them at any moment Mr Ir Armour Armoul the tho most powerful op orator and wealthier of or men In Chi Chicago cago COgo as one of ot those In III tora net He lIe sued Buell for tor ponce peare lip lio had Imd He n to 10 liny In or to this dash dashIng Ing In young man of or 29 to bo bl released tram from his obligation COULD NOT LCT II l 00 Ilter had the he price of ot wheat up to Jl 18 SK a n bushel nIl and U It Im ho rould Put It to OH he wished He lie had of ho he hovas vas WIlS millions mill lOllS of of ot wheat to tn I nu ns fast In fat tull t an nil anthe the stuff shIff was Willi led to him Il he had become in III one short year UI known Hla father had placed to 10 tho young oung in mans ana credit to CalI out his gigantic pro project To 10 this young Letter had added a tont of ot Ho 0 could have retired tho Held und held hol 1 a 0 place ns nil one of 0 the greatest In his history tory tor Hut ho found It II haid to let go goHe golie He lie had his appetite M lift ted had felt teU his power and rather than close out all ull his trades he ho carried his operations Into the noW crop overweening am nm ambition had led him h 0 Into a n Held Ho 10 had bean eon master of the tho May option but When all those he en Ill turned and began to drive him ho discovered tho difference between hav havIng Ing III hi hi speculations limited to a crop grown one yet ot to t be bo grown It simply was Willi n a question of money mono which 1110 hazard the most Loiter hilt had behind him The opposition had 10 0 times more money mono than t tho Letters Tho crash BO suddenly on June JUliO 13 as us to amaze the tho public Letter confessed that all his were and In addition Mr Armour who had hod sued lIuNI tor was waH the tho mn whom tho elder Let Lei Letter Leiter ter bait j make terms lint lilt int nil all Mr Letter Leiter had exported o of ot grain gra In that he ho reduced the reserve stock Jn In Inthis this country so o materially that the way was paved J v 1 for tOI better priced tho season following lil his great plunge have hAo been good ever since The rhe longer they remain BO so tho longer will prosperity last Insl DAmNO PLAN Ally of ot Mr 1 and tho farmer al nl although though unintentional In each ease case was Arthur K I Stilwell Ho IrA Is II fur better Jotler known west of or tho Mississippi than east of or that stream Ho made miner able for tor the tho managers of or the tho great reat trunk linos for tor several and some Rome someday liar day tho farmers may com to under understand stand what ho he did Ild for tor them With a n few other othel men he ho started out about in n years ago to build a II railroad tram from Kansas J City to tho Gulf Ho got ot about 10 11 miles of ot line constructed when the panic of ot lS 3 on It tooK several see I enis eals to build the next in 0 miles Dox Doz ens and dozen of at times time It seemed a nl though the tho project would havo to be lie I Hut Mr Stilwell never hope He hates Wall methods He Io list his hla stock there He In Is wonderfully In III his hi arguments and bus great mag magnetism IM a 11 story toty that In III the tint Kent da N of ot tho It wan called the Hainan City ell wan Willi In III a n train bound for When holl ho by chance got Kot Into with a n KIM KOI who happened hal to be u n banker ot Amsterdam Irl 11 III Tho Dutchman look looking lug ing America over Olt for the IIII purpose of ot hiding Dome good If Held for Investment Mr talked to that Dutchman He Ill d so c and o well that t they raced to New Nell embarked on the vessel bound and When hell Mr returned to 10 this country Dutch capital In III III the Kansas City ell to put It through with a L whoop m And It 1119 n Never Nevor vA MA vv AW VA VW Tr VS PRESIDENT PI ROOSEVELT T 1 1 J TO TOGO 00 GO TO CHARLESTON LESTON EXPOSITION DESPITE TILLMANS MANS i INSULT s i iJ J f 1 I I TILI fi AN fl n 0 1 I u r l u I pr APT I COY FRI Despite the tho Insult of ot Go Tillmon of at South Carolina President n nl will hearken unto the Iho plea of ot the tho friends of ot the exposition o and pay hIli promised to Charleston The combination halftone Illus Illustrates tho coming showing besides the chief buildings of or the exhibition Oo of ot South Carolina Copt Capt Wagoner president of ot the tho exposition Gov Guv who perpetrated the Insult upon the chief executive and the tho very ery latest portrait of at the tho distinguished visitor AJ v was wall there a line that had so many man ob to 10 overcome First Mr Ir Stilwell wanted to make his dulf out outlet outlet let but negotiations for tor tho thu purchase of ot the Gulf Jul and Interstate Hoad which hive given the entrance ho he de Mr d He cast cul his oye OC on New Orleans but blocked by b the th South orn Pacific and the tho Texas Pacific The Goulds the liar rii rl s sed d him at It every turn As a last re reo resort I sort he determined upon Sabine I the dividing line between Texas and Louisiana Sabine Pass was WaR at that time a thriving seaport of ot about Most of tho town and the land con can contiguous cant t wax owned by 11 Broth Brothers ers ClR bankers of at New York Mr Ir Sill pay puy the price I brothers asked aske for tor right of way through the the tho wharf frontage AAA A J M llA AAA A J v EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR INTE VIEWS OF THE MAGNIFICENT DEUTSCHLAND ON WHICH PRINCE P INCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA P IS MAKING HIS RETURN TRIP Hi f it Ut Jh nerl an steamship It on which Henry Is I hla hili return trip to German Is la one of ot 1111 J A tel u of ot the tho boat U II a splendid well equipped gymnasium Here u an authentic hot ot th the Du and nd of ot th the Interior he ho so HO tho road Willi a II line Kansas elty to 1 liable to reach the dulf Mr Mt hit upon a plan for tor making the i each him Ho lie bought un 1111 tract I l land on the shore of or Lake 10 11 i 15 a north of ot and Im he started t In III to dig a 11 ship hip vanal through the shallow lake Ink to tha tho deop Ifer lit ht Pass ho bombarded with suits Tho Ill work was II stopped by hy tile the of ot war piul once moio Mr 18 high and dry Iry no for lor hili rail mil Kiad TO 10 HIS OWN POUT I CI he his hili plans an 1 dug dUIr his chip canal m io A the tho 0 Paw At the Ih town he It built on all tho 1 Port Arthur n his put lut up one of lle tho finest In the tho Near Nearby by ty he established 1 the lilt largest most Important agricultural ex IX experiment t station sIll in III America A few miles ho he built a n town called Neth Netherlands erlands and he blought over hundreds cf Dutch Du and started them growing rice fruits vegetables He Jle tapped tha th living streams put In of ot Irrigation by which thousands of at acres of ot barren lands wore were made to blossom with many crops at It Port lort Arthur lie h put up an un export grain elevator wharves and that would woul 1 do credit to an ocean sea 1111 seaport port ort Instead of ot a 1 basin In tho th prairie Hut that wan a Incidental Great Greal manufacturing plants Imd been be fostered atom alo the tho line of the road roar r line of lit i had hol been pot on between Port Arthur and I It as In to furnish cargo for fOl the and all to p nil t toll tollIng Ing stock employed I The lisas City and Gulf having b n kicked end and buffeted by nil all rival Hues now be began Flan gan to lilt hit bark back It much nt but soon It began to 10 hurt and the Ian Kan Ianus pas us and Texas the Ih Colorado 01 do and Kanta anta FP F and other north aM south IOU th toads were forced to compote om pole with the Ihl Kansas City A Gulf or let their rival run avny awo with the business Then It hurt the trait OBIt end and west lints severe lint rater were weN rut out outto to moat meet the tho gulf gult competition And here hore Is where the farmer In livery Ever cent n 1 bushel Juhel of ot a out cut In th rote rate meant jut jutt that much added to the farmers pocket When It Is III considered that t hll t tho hulk of the tho export of ot America tow roe from the UH and that this n in on n H to of millions nf f bushels some slight conception t of or what Mr action meant to the pro producers of ot I be I west t ran be hI gained It Willi not alone In hut but In products In ores speller and anda a host of or commodities that these thele rates were cut ul The fight JI ht us lone Ion and hard hal bitter Just nt At the Die moment when wh n It I seemed med Mr was WaA going to b h bable hable able to dictate terms to his hi rivals rhal he ho was forced to the wall The struggle had sapped flipped th the money en ener erRy er of ot the tho road The Dutch bondholders ers fra some American creditors It swooped down upon upun him Ills great scheme chemi Is 18 now one of the baubles bauble own d dby by b George Gould John W Gates Gatos and AmI others nut Hut rates hp established had th effect of or making the Ollit HUM the bal bul balance ance or check cherk on the Rait W WP it t roads and the exports he attracted by reason of cut rats rates aided ma ilia materially In his hili deal deol It 11 has hns been esti eili estimated mated that the iraln to the farmers of or Kansas In three th NI by b the tho establishment of at this Gulf line would pay for forthe the tho of the road WICKS IK IN COTTON It Is I not many years since Theodore H II Price wall a cotton clerk In Virginia learning the tho difference M n ordinary nary middling and middling When he ho came to New w York he h had a groat of ot knowledge of the product and he hI had bad unbounded confidence In himself elf Smart young men who show marked talent In any uny particular branch ch of or Industry lire are not likely to go IiO J In i York ami Mr 1111 was able ahl to o ft 1 firm no n took high lank It won house hou of ut Price At Co The Alt wan Willi one of or the sons of ut tI maker of U The Oo Co was Georue rocker of lit 1 o and 11 New York ork ono mil of tho stock holders In III tho Hull wa 0 This WI I to 10 do 1111 n bank IliK und la In stocks bonds grain and notion Mr It Price knew bettor hettel than ho knew anything elm and In the IIII sum Burn summer mer 1101 if Una mined tin th crop Iroll o othe the southwest he saw Ill an opportunity to win will fame and fortune In short older At list time conditions In III the south were deplorable The Ille for several CallI hall had binin HI hugu hut but tho had been fully low Walls went up from nil that till the was In III Inlow low the cost of ot All tin till dumping grounds of or cotton y Havro Bremen New Orleans tIe choked with bales Nl Worse than all 1111 else cia was the fact that Liverpool absolutely dominated the cut cot cutton ton Ion market and dictated price Whether er tho yield WIlH large or 01 small It seemed to be Impossible for or the planters to 10 get gat a fair for to the lint If rr the price did not suit the Liverpool brok brokers ers orR or the Manchester spinners they th buying and drew out of ot the market until 1111 planters were forced IJ to let go and sacrifice their bales Henry M Nelll of ot New Nell ll llaM o aM guide philosopher r and friend of till DIP tillI cotton men He JI Issued I lira hr U v for tor their Information the growing i rop Many Man many limes Nell Nelli was out but his enors were of at ato n o kind brought profit to tho Brit lull IAh cotton men menNell In Ill Nell Nelli the prophet of or the Liverpool bears predicted lOO the yield of 0 mullO would bo the ever grown Price |