Show 1 STANDARD OIL COMPANY I i I I AI A AIn n a counter irritant nl to tho usual gossip tho the Worlds World's Work Vork for April ventures to relate a true story which tho the present mana managers of rho Standard Oil company company aware aware of cour course fC that oven o a a. sober oher and God fear fearing ear earing in ing magazine can cau publish nothing about thu tho Standard Oil company that docs does not show haw lurid wickedness without incurring and ana this story comes from a source that is m in in no way ly connected with tho the oil company The Tho information therefore in in independent and untainted Once upon a time timo a business man mm built up a successful manufactory for making makins a product in which the Standard Oil company was wu a n. competitor The Tho business wont on peaceably and profit profit- ably It even en grew so fast that tho the proprietor wished to increase his fac fac- tory ton tonTo To do o this he ho desired a Jar largo o amount mount of oC new capital lie lb u suggested to th tho Standard Stand Oil people that they purchase an tn interest in hs tys factory futory anc and put in hi tho tim necessary capital They did so BO and the profits profit grow Now com comes the disa disaster of the tho talo tale as as usual but it comes conies in iii an unusual way as such tales talc go o. o The manufacturer went into tho stock market and played tho the old game ganio amo of double or quits and the tho cards at last fell I quits Tho i victim vic dc- tim was waR now at the tLe mercy of his great and partner The Tim unfortunate manufacturer could save Fave himself only by securing another large rt sum of money Ho Un went n In the tho Standard Oil people and told the tho whole stor story frankJ frankly and antI asked d if they would 1111 out his interest in th the tho fact factory on nud if they would buy huy at what price Thc They offered at it once to to buy it at the tho same samo valuation at which their share sharo was valued by hy thorn them on ll their own books This was its actual worth forth and md tho sale salo as mado made and tho mono money vail paid at It a a. time timo of great t financial distress and thin tho needy speculator p was able to prevent disaster dis die aster from front his speculations It Thero There is no moral unless moral unless g yon you choose to conclude that no no I man nian nor nor set sol of men can possibly bly be he so o extraordinarily extraordinarily extraordinarily antI and consistently consistently wicked as talk falk nn and typo type in tho the gO gOssip gossip I p of tunes would ouM have han us believe c H A Great Democratic Governor Governors Is s tho the of an interesting interest interest- ing lug and concise study of Go Governor Gornor John A. A Johnson of Minnesota in tho the Worlds World's Work ort for April Mr rr Winthrop B. B Chamberlain the tho author anthor sums up tIp somewhat somewhat some some- what 3 as follows II Governor Go Johnston ton has often been compared with Lincoln whom he ho resembles in physical makeup as t well Il as in the success with which he ho hem hn hiss m overcome o untoward circumstances circumstance and has embraced opportunity n as it if itaro aro arose e. e But Bul his political al care career r thins thin far recalls rather that of df Grover Gro Clevo- Clevo land up lip to the tho timo time of his triumphant election as governor of Now cw York Liko Like Cleveland ho Ito was watt the instrument used by tho the people of n n. great reat state to rebuke political corruption Liko Like Cleveland Cleve Cheve- land he ho has proved that tho popular reliance upon him wa was well founded But he possesses lS l'S some characteristics valuable in a I. I public man mall that Cleveland Clove Cleve land lacked such as geniality approachability approachability approach approach- ability readiness a as l a speaker lie Ie has line tho the coura courage e of Hughes tempered b by tho the supreme necessity of law enforcement as Roosevelt but impulsive denunciation denunciation denunciation tion of those who do not agree with him would bo le quite quito foreign to his character It is tho the charm of hi his personality that makes n C friend of every man who comes within tho the radius of ot his influence Often radical in utterance ho lie is usually in action Constructive Construct y statesmanship he lie has never noyer as HI yet t shown in great measure yot yet ho is IM sensitive sen sen- to the thou thought ht of the masses amasses R and knows how to give vo it effective sion don Across Africa by Boat Cros Crossing in Ill tho tIo dark continent 1 by boat hoat is js something now in the line hinc o of African travel tr The Ti Gosling Alexander expedition expo expo- Ution conducted h by three young oun officers of tho British army entered the Soudan at fit the tho gulf ulf of or Guinea in iu 1904 1004 and emerged at the TIe Red sea ca in ill 1007 1907 after a journey of mow moro than theta miles eh chiefly by lv water This achievement in it described in Worlds World's Work for A April IJ c Each Kach of t the tho h. h white men connected with this party was especially specially fitted for lil hta task Three of thorn thom were young oun officers of the tho typo type t that Ita t makes males tho the world go round round strong seasoned resolute reso reso- lute resourceful farl fearless s of man nian or beast yet Jet of tho the five who went in in at tho the Ni Niger er only two came camo out at nt the Nile apt Capt Claud Alexander of the Scots Scot guards succumbed to blackwater feYer fever fever fe fe- fe- fe ver Yer near Jear I Lake ake Clad Clatl at tho the end of th thin the first year and Captain Go Gosling died of thin the same malady two years roars later at al a apost apost post in tho the Beldan Congo O on the highway high bight way to hume home His death neath was duo 1110 to prolonged prolonged pro pro- longed exposure in in tho the efforts to secure an all okapi said to Iho llio 10 bo rarest t animal in tho the world Edgar Edgar Allen Forbes inthe inthe in iu the Worlds World's Work I |