Arizona silver belt., 1901-01-17

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 HIS SELECTION OF A WIFE.
 To such degree did he practice his faith in heredity and home training that he chose the girl whom he made his wife by first seeking the acquant- ance of a mother who came up to his ideals. Having found the mother he was satisfie in advance that amy one of the daughters will do." He told the story himself one day as he was congratulating one of his iavorite em- ployees on his approaching wedding:
 ''You've got good girl and know it, though l never saw her, know her parents, and they're fine. she's sure to be all right, for she has a good mother. That's the way l picked out my wife looked around long tune for a good mother with daughters, and l found her down in Cincinnati. l went down there and picked out the youngest and prettiest of the girls. Then 1 went 10 her mother ana told her that meant to marry her daugh- ter. My iraHknesS To her mother rather scared the girl aJ first and she seemed quite airaid of me. But when she found out that l wasn'G such pad fellow she said yes and we were married. And you may be sure we have been happy. She couldn'C help but be good wife and mother, for her own mother was both.p
 Miss Malyina Belle ogden, daugh. ter of Jonathan Ogden of Cincinnati, was the girl whom Philip D. Armour thus won. They were married in Oc. tober. 1882, and have had two children Philip D. Armour, Jr., who died last spring, and J. Ogden Armour, who seems destined by character and training to succeed his father at the head of the Armour house.
 FIRST GREAT COMMERCIAL COUP.
 The first great commercial coup achieved by Philip D. Armour came nearly seven years after he had re. turned from the gold fields with his first s4,o00. He had become convinced that the rapidly growing grain and cattle industries of the west were in greatest need of improved facilities for handling and transportation, and with d view of getting close to the western market he bought an elevator at Mil waukee. That brought him in con- tact with John Piankinton and Fred. erick Layton, who were there engaged in the cattle, hog and grain business, and he soon found an opportunity to buy into their partnership. Herman Armour, his brother, already had be- come established in Chicago and the family name already was in good standing. Then came the closing days of the civil war, with pork at $50 and s60 barrel.
 With one eye on the federal opera tions about Richmond and Petersburg and the other on the hog crop of the west, young Armour became con yinced that the war would end very soon and the price of provisions would take an awful tumble. He made sure that the high price of pork was wholly due to the war demand and the ig- norance of the eastern operators as to the size and location of the hog crop. Then he laid his plans before John Plankinton and was authorized to go to New York and sell pork to all re- sponsible buyers. He got there on rising market, with the price at S55 barrel, and the buyers fell over each other to get their orders to him. He sold so much pork for future delivery that the price fell to si0 before he was half through. Some wise old dealers warned him that he would be buying pack on 20 per cent rise within week, but he paid no heed until he naG forced the market down to $50 barrel. Then, as he had forsetn, Lee the war ended aad the DO O.tom fell out of the provision Biarket. Plankinton and Armour bought for SIS and even less the pork that the young westerner had sold for from $50 to s6U a barrel, ana more than Sl, GOO, 600 was netted to the firm.
 ANTICIPATED THE PANIC.
 In the years If the last pani, and hard times he was beset by smart operators who thought they saw a chance to corner him. He had out orders for enormous quantities of
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