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Show e. h. amiiin RISE FIIOM POVERTY ie era nun Railroad Czar WatAicel the Start ly Yeung at Stay-vesa- F sh, He De p nt Whom Lcter t:d from High Petition. GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE OF FINANCIAL ! 'undo was in Brooklyn dealing la estate. He Is still there. Iy this time the little man la a deacon's collar and hard black tl uud whose trousers were bagged at the k litres, had got bis smell'' of railroading. He bad trlpiied J. Picrpont Morgan In that banker's scheme for the reorganization of the Erie railroad. Morgan had drawn terms for the stockholders. Harriman drew counter terms and much better terms fur the stockholders and himself. He beat Morgan then and he has beaten him sines. It was only a few years later-- in 1XS3 that he went Into the Illinois Central. Siuyvesaut Fish helped him there, but that didn't matter to during the last six nionibi of l'.iOH. Fish hud bucked him, or rather his ally, the Standard Oil, In the teor gaiilxatlon of the Mutual Life Issue ance company. Flah tried to get what the public believed would be an honest administration. Harriman de mamled that the present controlling outfit remain In office. It la (till there, and Fish la out of the of the Illinois Central, which shows that Harriman will fight and spare not even tils best friend unless he has to spare himself. Edward Henry Harriman is an economist. He always does whit Is best for Harriman, and for those who help him help Harriman. Railroads, when one Is developing their Harriman develops; he donn't open up a new country; he lnit a Life Insurance companies pioneer. are wonderful "feeders" In trady money. Harriman had the Equitable Life. He lost It when young Hyde sold out Now he la fighting for the Mutual Life. He is pretty sure that he Is going to get it He kxows Thomas F. Ryan has the Equitable and be doesn't like Ryan. Harriman Is called direct In his methods by those who do not know him well. He is direct in his speech, when It serves his purpose to be direct He Is pleasant In his address when it serves him to be pleasant Rut Edward Henry Harriman makes the newspaper vender In the corridor of the Equitable building, where he still keeps his offices and the offices her son, KING iififislme la ths Trail That Seem to Stand Out Boldest in tee Man Far Harriman First and All the Time One Charity That May Be Slid to Be Near His Heart. Edward Henry. It was enough to lift the burden from her husband's shoulders and to bur a home at Eighth and Erie streets. In Jersey City, where the family lived comfortably for mniiy yems. It was enough, too, to save the minister from vestries which would not pay. The Rev. Mr. Harriman gave up St. John's pulpit In West Hoboken In IMCti. which waa shortly after the legacy fell to his wife. Henry at this time is described hymen and women whu knew him as a boy of pleasuut nature, who liked to do most of the tilings other boys did. but wit li a view of life I list was much broader and deeper than most of his associates of his age. He realised that his way In the world depended upon himself, and, whether by chance or th rough somebody's aid. he chose Wall street as a beginning. He appeared In the street not long after Ids family moved from West Hoboken lu Jersey- City, lie wus a clerk In a small Link' rage office and he was a good one. He used to go running around downtown In those days just as the army 'of youngsters, with wallets In liiind, are running uruuud down there now from the time the batiks begins to open ami the ticker-tap- e run until the market closes for the Hsr-rliuu- imvsI-denc- y York Fifty nine years ago was time St. Geoige's the and on lleiiiiihtcaii out looking rolllog acres of lamg Island for miles day. it was while he was on the floor around, as it had hcou doina since a doing this kind of work thut he met day nearly a century and a half wheu the first Eplncoul services Htiiyvesant Fish, then a young man , with his way to make wero held there and supplication was like succor Kish had wealth and the and to Cod iu world. the to made preserve a king of England and "Kys (iouvennr influence of a high social iionltlon beIt stood with that hind him. Harriman was "going it of tbys Colony. alone, hut there was something In placidnena of quaintness ainid Its and his make-u- p that Fish liked, and the that It wears about Its old rectory was an air of two became great friends. According peace which boded well for those It to the stories told In Wall street tosheltered. day, and which have been turned over Out in this month of January, l8tS, and over again of late on account of there was one within the shelter of Harrlman'a ousting of Fish from the Ht George's rectory whose peace was Illinois Central, It was FlBh who gave sorely troubled, lie was St. George's Harriman most of his commissions in commissions which days; minister, the Rev. Orlando Harriman, those Jr. Per seven years he had been buf- brought him In touch wllh men that feted around from one charge to an- he would probably never have met other, with a wife and a growing fam- otherwise. Anyway, when these moily on his hands. Living had been a guls of finance who belonged to Fish's serious problem. Among those to crowd won In the market Harriman whom he had preached the Gosiiel the also Invariably added to the size of thought never seemed to hsve ob- Ills bank account. truded itself that ministers must eat and have clothes to wear just as ot bor RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OF EDWARD H. HARRIMAN, CZAR OF AMERICAN RAILR0AD8. mortals. After Four Years at Hempstead. Now he found hhnaelf beset by the condition that same poverty-strickeha had known In all his former rector-aleHe had expected better from ftt. George's, but In this month of January he awoke to find that his salary was far in arrears and also to the unmistakable fact that in a few weeks there would be one more member of the family to feed and clothe and always take Into, consideration. The Rev. Orlando Harriman had not long to wait for the addition to his family. On February 25 a son was I torn to him and he named him Henry Harriman. Bdward Henry Harriman could not have entered the world at a more Inopportune time In his fathers affairs, hut if he had been born earlier or later, as the records would indicate, lie would not hsve found the family any better oft In the things of the isrth. A year after Edward Henry's birth the Rev. Orlando Harriman Jr., unable to make the vestry of SL George's see the absolute necessity of (laying its rector his salary, turned Ids back upon Hempstead forever. The year after that found him and Ms family in Caatleton, Staten Island. He became the assistant rector of SL Paul's there and a twelvemonth later be was moving again. A Nobis Woman. Mrs. Harriman was a woman of sterling character, and the pride that was In her an s bulwark agalnat the world's unVIniini'. She was imtlent .H. and she bore It all without a word to With a E. II. m me union racinc luuirona CO assured threshold. hrt competence She could any beyond not hide It from the children. The Harriman sought him a wife; a wo- puny, feel that every time he opc children, too. must have drunk deeply man of the elect. It has been said his mouth that E. II. Harriman at the family well of though his fam- worth Just about 1150,000,000. but that poverty-strickeRut this railroad financier has I none of them more than the boy called ily had been they had never permitted There's a house over Edward Henry Harriman, the third themselves nor the children to forget charities. son. llosldes him there were two the pride of good breeding. He did the east side called the Roys' cli older brothers, Nelson and Orlando, not forget. He married Miss Mary which It Is said, he built at a rout it is also said and a younger named William. There Averell, of Rochester. Her father was $250,000. and were two slater to make up the cir- a capitalist and she brought to liarri-ma- n keeps up with an annual malntenax sinews that count in the buttle check. It is said also of him that cle. Idly and Annie. It waa when Kdwnrd Henry Hard- of dollars that Ie waged In Wall gives ('.liristiuas tret's away eve man had just turned Into his eleventh street. This Averell money ranir year to the country school chlldr year that ilm Urv. Orlando Harriman from a railroad source. Mrs. Harrl-inan'- s mar Arden. His estate there co father Is reputed to have made prises .30.000 acres, and a great nut and his family net themselves and (heir few household good down In tho most of it in the Rome. Water-tow- of the little sehi ml folks belong & Ogdensbiirg Went Hnliiilioii N. J., and the minisoniiaqy out of the employes of his domain. It was only (wo months ago tt ter entered upon the of St. which so nisny others have become Hand man was cornered" in Chlca John's It tvas hi first per- enriched. manent charge since leaving HempIt must Ilefoie he was 20 years old Hnrrl-niaby a newspaper man. Hiw.iys that Hjrriin had seen the greatest financiers stead, and he engaged himself at the munificent subtly of $2(10 a year. of the time come their cri.Nrs one has to lie cornered" to talk for pi Most of the six years which lay be- by ouc. lli had seen some or them lieatiou. This is what he said: "Ambition to lieeome a financial si tween the beginning or the residence get on their leet again, but they were I'd give ft all up in Hoboken ami the ileiarlure from few. lie was always wln-rthe fray Caslleton. Slaton Island, had been was I: nest, hut he wns never wound- if I could. "We have enough railroads nc came hack I rout the spent In Jersey Oily, with the heud of ed. Yet he tho family going here and there wher- firing Put- - without, a sculp.'' lie took What is needl'd Is the derclopmi ever he eottld le a nvinrs assistant pniii.s when the historic anthra- of the territory through which 1 or fill a pulpit. cite tonn-brought Jersey tertral rnilreads run. and improving t It Is said that while he was at West down from fill) to $i a share. He hud lines to the highest standard of e flolioken seven years, all told the a liaa-- lu smushitig that combination, cleiirv. Itev. Orlando fi'ieii other pulpits when- and ih.- men who had boon behind it "Any proposition which would by ever the optHirl unity ofTcn-- to add a liner. Mu lu- had. and tie laughed at agitation or otherwise Injure the credit of the hlg transi .irtatloti uilte to his meager ineome. All the i hem so they would not he able to la I 'si Huriimans father died. while, however, lie wus doing the i lie could, giving the hoys and girls the The mot her had gone long raise capiti.l for fmiirovenietit will seeducation th.it Ms pom- purse cond I lev. Orlando Hariiuian passed out of riously llTi'Ct the Iii.sim-Sinterests of this country. ill the arms of a surroundbuy. lr. was a time that must have i.fe .it whal the wnrbl call "To Hihii-vnot have even put Iron Into the sous of the hoys; ing of wliieh he n lime when they v.eie driven to il'i allied in tin- - days when he was siieeiss n nun must aiiend strictly to nnd keep a little In advance make a god of socking a pnipit which would pay liusiin-!The good times cairn- to the family lini nlfirient to liny bread fur him- of the I vies." There is a warm spot In Ham' mans through Mrs. Ilarrlmau. A legacy was self . i r.il family. Ilis sou. Henry, was loft her, and the old days of hiiierucs-- t xc;ih moi e than Jl.imii.nni) then. heart : there is in it. too. i of .ho nil-'and poverty passed away, hut not Til lie Is p.iK'di.n-ttolchildren who fond of Ms two l..i-- l s. who are now mn.g ladles, their discipline As they li.nl hei u for .i In r done l ! , Wiiii.-.uv. as in a fair iii'il of h's two young suns. lie and sufficient unto thei.i., el.es when tli' in were sufin I.vookiyn had lilll, so ihc iich. He died only a Ills bought tin tide t! li' i'ome the tile rectory of St. Genigc at Hempficient tirii- - then-sI.iij 1 .. hiit'ki".'. Chillies wns not much that M.s. wife I). Si'll-stead where tiny were Mini, to bo (hi tied. : .' nnn- was the unm ' !, Hr i.; In; about ns ton-Kari man's ship huu-.gli- t and tliMr h.eii fop-1dollar hill would to to ilia we.iltt of I wily m .i Ysi-- i Ke:u and Op lie-fo- re possl-hllltle- Hari-lman- to-da- n s. n n n r r l - com-pani- self-dciim- l. ! i sur-..i.-- ian-,,iie:-- - i . IPir.-iumn- i wi-e- h;-i- I iii - Ls.'t to Yale. Patchy Wall Paper. If a patch must be applied to wan paper, let the new piece lie In strong besides many other beqeusta to s sunlight until the colors are faded to $60,000 to the Ya!e art school, match those on the wall; then tear the to be used for the establishment of a edges and the applied piece will not professorship In architecture ba so conspicuous. )"M-tutlon- wrm 'UNCLE BY Mark of Mans Superiority. Fashions Decree. that creator ot naLady (at booksellers) Fm sorry ture and architect of tho world, has about these hooka Some of them may Impressed man with no character so be masterpieces, but I really cant buy proper to distinguish him from other books with bindings that wont match animals as by the power of speech. the hangings of my library. Pals Second Childhood. Why call that senile unelesansss The second childhood? As well compare a monarch grove To ax razed wild wood I There la no childhood but tha first God, -- No second joylund. Tho only fragrant apan of life. Qulntlllian. : Is youth In Tha quaking limb, the shriveled fiesK The locks ao hoary Are aurely naught but age'a marks That tell their story! Whera Is the ripe end ruddy cheek. The eye flush dancing? Where is the whoop amt loud halloo, e Tha prancing? The mind la like a child's, you say? The thought la ailing? Oh, no, my dear, unlike the boy's. Its strength la failing ! There ia no childhood but the first. For Ood, In giving, Has vouchsafed only to the boy Male. Cutting a Fern. Boston ferns that have grown so large and luxuriant as to permit dividing Into smaller plants may have cuttings taken away from the roots without damage to the plant, if carefully done. If transplanted to the right oil and kept under proper condition! the cutting should root well and develop into a healthy plant A fern does not need hot and incessant sunshine. Two of the finest Boston ferns known to the writer pend the entire winter In windows where scarcely a sunbeam falls, though there Is plenty of light A little sun, however, does them no harm and a moist atmosphere la essential. boy-lik- Tha crown of living! Eddies. The riffles run to still water; Indiscreet youth to wisdom and the tranquility of old age. Men Tall and Short Mullhall, the statistician, whose An observing contemporary hag discovered that the successful business figures are quoted all over the civilman goes about his business with the ized world, makes an interesting statement as to the average stature game energy that a terrier' display of men of different natlona Taking when "rati" Is yelled In his ear. the age of 80 as the period of life, he gives the folowlng figures: AmerA Kansas physician lost a pocket-booicans, 61.1 , English, 67.0; containing a comfortable sum of Scotch, 67.4; Inches; German, 66.2; Russian, money. The other day he received the 65.4; Hindoo, 65; Chinese, 64.8; Bushempty wallet bearing this note: "Doc- men, 62, and Laplander, 60. tor, please fill this prescription again. GREELEY AS A POSEUR. An exchange tells of a church in a certain town where the congregation Great Editor Waa Prone to Harmless la so small that when the preacher Affectation. gay "dearly beloved," the only young Thera waa a great deal of innocence lady In the congregation thinks he la In Horace Greeley as well as not a litproposing. tle affectation. He was rarely seen A Texas man Is scouring the coun- without one trousers leg carelessly try for a fellow who eloped with his caught In the upper part of his hoot wife and his mule. He announces that and a necktie with , bow under his If the fellow will only return the mule ear. Once in the public room of a be will forgive him, as it would he w hotel a friend of Greeley's kindly trouble to get another .wife. gulled down the disarranged trousers leg and straightened the necktie. Greeley thanked him and soon after left the room. When in the course of half an hour he appeared In the street the trousers leg and the necktie had been carefully disarranged, and the man looked as negligent of things earthly as he always looked. It was part f his pose as a man of genius to wear his trousers leg and his necktie as if he had put them on In a hurry while absorbed In meditation. It was a harmless eccentricity. k If you are wakeful in the night. Eat onions! If you've a cold severe and tight. Eat onions! If wide, dear. In erolding mood Keep you In waking attitude. Eat onions! Than if she nags and frets for long; Just add a dosen herring strong And onions! Now while she Jaws, on trouble bent. You breathe the room full of the scent Of fish and onions! If gentle sleep does not ensue. There's only one thing left to do More onions! An Oklahoma editor thus expresses his wrath at a recent crime committed In his community: Any man who would maliciously set fire to a barn and burn up 20 cows should be ktysked to death by a Jackass. The Wave man would like to do the kicking." Sea Trees. Forms of life In the sea are far more wonderful than any that exist on land. However much one may doubt the stories of sea serpents, there are probably far bigger fish In the sea than ever come out of It; and m for plant life. It has been conclusively proved that sea trees 1,500 feet In height are quite common In the ocean. These monster trees are a kind of brown seaweed, the uppermost branches being only about a quarter of an Inch in thlcknesa Countless bladders, like miniature balloons, and about as big as a hen's egg, form among the branches of the tree, and, being filled with air, buoy up the trunk and branches so that they grow almost erect Mammoth sea animals often build their nests In these trees, as they give off several degrees of heat which makes the surrounding water comparatively warm. Exchange. Worm Deserved Its Fate. Miss Marie Shedlock Is famous for the Invention of a new and delight ful type of children's entertainment Dressed as a fairy, Miss Shedlock recounts to children with delicacy and power the lovely tales of Hans Andersen. She keeps her wits about her in her entertainments, and children, no matter how odd their questions may lie, can never stump her. She is always ready with an apt reply. Entertaining a children's party at a certain millionaire's house in New TEST FOR SPURIOUS COINS. Simple Method Disclosed by a Juror During a Trial. At this session of the central criminal court' there has been an exceptional number of charges of making and uttering counterfeit coin, says tho London Tribuna At the conclusion of one of the cases the foreman of tho iury asked the authorities if they would take a suggestion from 12 business men who during the year had to deal with considerable sums in siF ver coin. There waa a most simple test for the detection of base coin. It was to cut tho milled edge of a good coin sharply against tho milled edge of the suspected coin. If the suspected cola were n spurious one the metal would almost Immediately begin to shave off. It waa, he added, a test that could bo carried out anywhere, on tha top of a bus or in a shop, add tha public ought to be acquainted with It After making a personal test the common sergeant said he quite agreed with the suggestion of the Jury as to the usefulness of the test and said tt ought to be made known. HINT FOR LATE STAYERS. Custom Borrowed from tho Boar te Get Rid of Bores. In South Africa candles are used for lighting purposes In the homes, and when a young Boer maiden hai gentlemen visitors, the mother sticks a pin in the candle, and when it has burned to the pin the callers under stand that It Is time for their do . parture. Mrs. Early, a society matron ol Washington, recently made a visit td the Transvaal, and was lmpressad with the custom of the Boers that he determined to Introduce It lnts her own home. Consequently the alee trie lights were removed and candles substituted In the drawing-room- . Mr. Staylate, a frequent though not always welcome caller, waa one of the first visitors to call after the la auguratlon of the new custom. Hs ' witnessed the placing of the pin is the candle by Mrs. Early, and aftai he had gone ventured to inquire: "Why, Miss Early, does your moth or stick a pin In the capdlo?" "Oh," responded the young woman with an air of apparent Innocence, "mother learned that In South Africa as a way of sending home the Boers. Harper's Weekly. YES, THE DRAWER OPENED Jones Knew It, But Explanations Wsra Not In Order. Jones was going away. And, as usual In such cases, It was up ta Jones to put on a clean collar and shirt and, incidentally, catch a train. He had no time to spare. he shouted downstairs, "Maria, "where are my things?" "In your bureau drawer, ofoourse, floated up from the basement Jones then tackled the drawer. Stuck, of course.. (They always do tick when you are in a hurry.) He pulled and heaved and said things unmentionable. Suddenly, with perversity for which bureau drawers are noted. It flew open with a rush, on the and Jones, with a death-grihandles, shot clear across the room. The drawer couldn't go through the door, but Jones could, and did, landing at the foot of the stairs with a crash that Jarred things mightily, just in time to hear the partner of his bosom ask: Did you get It open. Hen-y- ?" That was adding Insult to injury, and Henry stalked upstairs with fire In his eye, and said never a word. p A Missouri rural editor says wisely York, Miss Shedlock happened to emthat "the woman who can make good ploy the old proverb: The early bird Gauge of Friendship. butter, darn sorks to a frazzle, cook a catches the norm. ' A little boy of your good friend may be Gauge good meal that tickles her husband questioned the proverb promptly. taken accordingly as you are assured lint wasn't the worm foolish, he of his clear to the waistband, and keep the preference for your unpleasant children's neck and ears clean, seldom tsked, to get up early and be truth rather than your flattering lia. n ease. in divorce caught? figures John A. Howland. AND 1 K It NAME IS MACD. Just one Miy. Just mu- - mull-- . Just one pour little foul -- no more school: Just one kick, ninniinu'a jel: At a quarter to seven a new face in heaven. The mule's here yet! Gerald Pullivau. 1 DEAD MAN EIAYI'KS. Oliver Goodwin of Clarksburg, rewas found shot cently married, through the heart this morning in his The dead man eloited to Oakbed. land with Miss Ossie mplo. Erio (Pa.) Times. lu-s- - c will of the late Prof. James By H. Hoppln, of Yale, just filed, he leaves Ed-war- d t, Fort-- the si? - N tUM Email AFTfJlt CIIRISTMaS. Miss Shedlock, My dear," said "that worm hadn't been to bed at til. lie wa J ist getting home." The Place for You to Get a Diamond: CGaoB iwi' I CbJ I, They were speaking of the fashioa-tbl- e wedding. And she was the last daughter," remarked one. Yes, added the other, "and they ilways said she was the cream of the lamily. "And after the ceremony the parents sept. I wonder what they were crySALT LAKE CITY. UTAH ing about?" "Oh. perhaps they were crying over Tho name old place. Just as reliable an ever, with the largest linea of pill milk. New Coode. Tli rose is re.l. Tl,e violet's Idtie. My li also blew!'' MARKET VALUE. A Texas widow has sued her neighbor for SlO.noo damages, alleging that the neighbor's dog harked at her husband's horses, causing them to rue sway nnd kill her lord and master. Having heard or the Incident, my wife trying to buy the dog! Sin 2H.P.k)6H.P. Thirty Cords Per A Da; 6 H. P. PoitaLle Saw Ouifit will image six four conii of wood prr hour, f igure it up and tee what it mea Rnid you can me die engine to ran com ihri def and huiker, feed grinder or whnrver pawn irqu-imEngine if ample end rary to open !L. No mechanical (kill required. CoS of gafol very null. A F-law rig will ioon pay (or it Scad hr DisL-au- d Ciichfue No. M Stvj Faiibankf-Mon- e Y&su 'mm, Fairbanks, Morse &. Compar Salt Lake City, Utah |
