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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

amusing diversion, to have in time
crushed all opposition and forced the
people and the state into submission.
John ID. Rockefeller has been laugh
ing up his sleeve and serenely waiting.
1t has amused him to read in the pa
pers that the Kansas legislature had
appropriated $4,000 for the estab-
lishment of a state refinery to buck
against his $3.50, 100000 company. He
has been annoyed, perhaps, at the eff
fort to NEEDLE with his pipe lines, but
he has felt confident that the end
would come in victory for him and the
establishment of his company in the
state on firmer basis than ever before
He has mapped out campaign of
waiting. This great financier, this
$3.50, O00, 900 monev bags, can afford to
wait. for his dollars work while he
sleeps. and he can keep busy banking
the 5000 900 yearly income from his
investments while the poor Kansans
see their $4,000 refinery a sink hole
into which to pour the wealth of the
state and the independent producers
there brought to state of sub
mission where they will be willing to
make peace at Rockefeller's own
terms, and if reports are to be credited
Rockefeller's terms are never generous
except to the interests of Rockefeller
himself He is never satisfied. it is
said unless he can buy at ruinously
low prices and sell at figures which
tell the story of fair CD profit of
several hundred per cent.
Kansas Fires the First Gun.
Kansas seems to be always doing
things which other states are afraid
to dc. or never think of doing. and she
has fired the first gun in this ire
mendous war, and, as Lincoln's call
to arms in 81 was met by the cry
from the different states: I'VE are
coming, Father Abraham, 100000
strong" so the sound of Kansas first
shot at the oil octopus has aroused
the nation, and on every hand, and
from unexpected directions, reinforce
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

fitting far over the face? Did you
make fun of them? You better have
not, for probably you yourself will wear
one such the coming summer.
Yes, as reaction from the cart-wheel
headgear, the picture-hat, we are to
have a reign of small roundish hats;
as a reaction from the off-the-face
style, we are to go to the extreme Of
placing the hat almost on the nose.
1t will entail very carefully dressed
locks at the exposed back of the head,
and woe to Ter whose tresses are not
luxuriant. The hat will be ridiculous
enough anyway, but especially so on a
small knot of hair. 1t goes without
saving that some women will not at
tempt the revived mode.
Trimmings will be piled in the back.
One fashion writer says it will be nee
essary to walk around the summer girl
in order to enjoy her millinery thor
oughly. The trimming peeps out from
under the brim, falls on the hair, very
little of it seems on the hat proper,
save a soft scarf of tulle.
Small round shapes. turbans and
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sailors are to have their day, the sail
or also tipped well down over the face.
And, a matter we called recent atten-
tion to, the lingerie hats, washable af-
fairs, are to be in vogue. These lin
gerie hats are often prophesied, and
we had grown bit skeptical of hats
usually devoted to babies at the sea-
side ever obtaining among grown
women to any extent. But now they
are surely to be popular and come in
such attractive designs it is small won
der they have won their way. They
are rather largish, on the picture" or
der. One designed by an artist had a
crown and brim of white, the material
the English eyelet embroidery, the
trimming sash OF Iight-blue silk and
bunch of pink roses, the pink that
delectable shade that goes so well with
pale blue. ELLEN OSMONDE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

Two important items OF John d.
Rockefellers fortune are frequently
overlooked in making computations of
his wealth. These are his holdings of
real estate and mortgages and of gov
eminent and municipal bonds. Both are
so vast that if we undertook to follow
out the threads that lead to them they
would take us to every part of the Unit
ed States and across the Atlantic.
While Mr. Rockefellers real estate
holdings would amount to probably
SIC, 100000, such investment does not
prove very attractive venture for this
astute financier. He prefers to let tho
other fellow own the real estate and he
hold the mortgage. The city of Cleve-
land is an example of this. He owns
valuable property there-F'orest Hills
and his Tarrytown On. W estate is
truly baronial in its magnificent proper
lions, but these are nothing in COM
parison to his mortgage holdings. in
Cleveland he holds $780, 900 mortgage
on the principal hotel, mortgage for
a like amount on large wholesale bust
ness, and banking aud street railway
holdings which would bring the total to
SIS 100000 in the Ohio city alone.
But Cleveland is not the only city in
the United States that is doing a good
part of it's business on John ID. Rookie
fel1er's money and paying him well for
the privilege. New York, Chicago, Pitts
burg and Buffalo are cases in point.
Will Be Worlds First Millionaire
OF Mr.. Rockefeller's holdings in gov
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23
GIGANTIC STRUGGLE WHICH HAS BEEN
BEGUN AGAINST THE GREATEST
OF ALL COMBINES
THE FIRST GUN FIRED IN KANSAS
Government Orders Investigation ich Will Lay
Bare the Methods of the Oil Octopus---John
ID. Rockefeller and the Part He Plays
in the Game--In Fifty Years
He Has Become the Worlds
Greatest Potentate.

ments are coming to the aid Of plucky
Kansas.
The Government to Use It's Probe.
The most important of all develop
ments in this fight has been the action
of congress in ordering the department
of commerce and labor to begin in
vestigation of the business of the
Standard Oil company and as an evil
dence of the thoroughness with which
the work will be done, the note OF
President Roosevelt to Mr. James r.
Garfield may be quoted. 1t is terse, and
businesslike: Act vigorously on the
resolution at once" And if the way
in which Mr.. Garfelds department
has handled the beef trust investiga-
ton, and brought matters and condi-
lions before the interstate commerce
commission, which promise i'll for the
beef trust, is any indication of the
spirit and thoroughness with which
the investigation of the Standard Oil
business will be conducted, Mr. Rookie
Teller may well begin to fidget in his
chair and recall unpleasant memories
of how Frank S. Monnett, the attor-
ney general of Ohio, forced the
Standard to abandon it's trust form
of organization, leave the state and
take refuge in it's present form of a
New Jersey corporation.
Monnett Deals Standard Blow.
This will not be the first time the
Standard has been investigated Three
times the trust has been up before Leg
islative commissions and has once
been taken before the courts. The
legislature of New York delved into
the affairs of the monopoly in 1897,
with the Hepburn committee Con-
gress tackled it in 1888 with the
Bacon committee. and again in 1890
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~ hairs look out and buy one
of the new nets that help
the locks ITO stay put" Wells should
be worn this month OF tan and freckles
for the sake of the complexion, but
the nets protect the hair better. be-
lieve they come in shades to match
locks of almost any hue.
The illustrations seem to us to pic
ture ideal March maids, SO neat and
trim are they, in spite of blowy skirts.
A feature of promenade dress is the
tailored touch, the good fit, the simple
long lines. Hats, matching, are light
ly trimmed.
The lady of fashion and the woman
of business both court simplicity for
the suit of service, and each shows her
good taste in so doing. Just here it
may be in season to speak of the rain
coat, which seems now to have reached
the perfection of finish. A great deal
of attention has been lavished upon
this article of dress, and as a result
it is more than utilitarian, though it is
that to degree. The newest ones are
4
liked in sleeves, shoulder lines, long
or short waist, and therefore serve
many purpose other than Indicated
by the name raincoat. They make a
good appearance in travel, for after
noon occasions, and even in the even
ing are worn by women very careful
in matters Of dress. They certainly
fill long-felt want.
Various material are employed for
these coats, tweeds, coverts, sicilli-
ennes and also waterproof silk, A
goodly number of suiting now shown
in the stores pass through a water
proofing process and sudden rain
storm does not now turn a gown into
a wreck, as once it was sure to do.
Some of the silks are absolutely water
proof.
What Is shirt-waist suit? Answer
anything in the suit line that is
ankle length-ball frocks of course, ex-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

Unless il is a case of clouds without
rain, and storm without wind, and cy-
clone without any twister, the tempest
which is gathering about the great
Standard Oil octopus is going to give
that many tentacled trust something
else to do in the near future besides
crushing out competition, forcing up
the price OF oil, sucking in the profits,
and declaring the regular quarterly divi-
dend of Is per cent. to its greedy stock
holders.
A good many people are beginning to
think that the Standard is the key log
in the trust jam, which is dam
ming up the commercial, industrial
and financial streams of the coun-
try, and destroying the individ-
ual rights of the common people, and
that if the dynamite of equitable law,
and perfect publicity, can be touched
off, under this key log, so as to COM
pei it to yield to a reasonable adjust
ment and just control, all the other
trust logs will float harmlessly down
the stream of the national life, and the
danger of unlawful combination will be
passed.
But however that may be, certain it
is that a war cloud of ominous proper
tions is arising upon the horizon of
the Standard Oil company's sky. 1t
began to gather in Kansas, that home
of the cyclone, and has spread until
from Texas to New York and from
the Indian territory through the
prairie states of Illinois, Iowa and In
diana to the capital city on the Po-
tomac, the ominous mutterings of the
coming storm have been heard. Had
the Standard only had to deal with the
situation in Kansas it would have
been the merest child's play, the most
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

The Worlds Greatest Potentate.
From the purely financial point OF
view, however, Mr.. Rockefeller is easily
the worlds greatest potentate The
car of Russia enjoys an annual income
of about s12.00O,0OO; Emperor William.
as king of Prussia, receives little less
than $4,000 600; the emperor of Austria
Hungary, $3.S75.000; King Edward, 81.
225,0 900, and the king of Spain. $4,000 600.
In the expressive phrase of Wall street.
King John, as emperor of oil, king OF
steel, banking and railroads. and
prince of several lesser dominions
could buy and sell them all. If he had
to earn his present wealth at the rate
of two dollars day, which many OF his
employees receive, it would take him
something more than 10000 years to
accomplish the task. or considerably
longer than we have any record of in
human history It is not mercy the
number of John D. Rockefeller's mil
lions, astounding as is their total. that
is most impressive. 1t is the power
which they convey. BY reason OF his
ability to reward and punish, to mako
and unmake values. to bestow riches or
ruin, he is almost absolute master not
only of those enterprises in which he
holds major monetary interest but in
all those to which he cares to turn his
attention in any way The enterprises
in which he holds investments aggre-
gate a capitalization of over $1,000.
O00,0 O0 Though he owns outright but
tenth of this, he can sway the destinies
of every company involved if he SO de-
sires.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

Miss Mabel said the persistent suit
or, Il can't help speaking to you again.
1t is true you have said No very en-
phatically to every proposal"
Not at all" interrupted the sweet
girl; Il said Yes last Tuesday"
Last Tuesday? Er-I wasn't here
then"
mo; but Jack Hanson was Tit
Bite.
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Hunnor.

Some persons are SO dry that you
might soak them in joke for month
and it would not go through their skin.
Henry Ward Beecher.
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eminent and municipal bonds it were
idle to speculate. His beneficent atten-
tons have been bestowed on other fields,
too. that are not included in any of the
above classifications, such as that of
the big insurance companies, steamship
and telegraph and building corporations
and other things, as the department
store advertisements say, too numerous
to mention.
Taking into account all these wide
spread interests, it is not difficult to
figure out that John d. Rockefeller is
already possessed of upward of $780,
100000, or that, with the power which
his vast wealth gives him of buying
cheaply when prices are at rock bot
tom and when financial stress compels
the holders of particular properties TIC
let them go, he will become a full
f1edged Millionaire within another ten
years, if he lives SO long. Indeed, the
accumulation of his yearly income of
$50.000,000, or Whereabouts, will carry
him to that point without any allowance
for the appreciation of the properties in
which his money is invested such as IS
certain to occur
If one were to construct table show
ing chronologically the growth of Mr..
Rockefeller's fortune it would read about
as follows:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

ONT you remember those
funny old pictures Of youth
full looking ladies with great
chignons and tiny round
hats perched at the edge
Of the nile of hair and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23

FIRST precaution, be sure
and have a neat petticoat,
not to say pretty one.
And for untidy March
hairs look out and buy one
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Fifteenth District.

Rev Newman H. Burdick: "Those Making
Excuses
At Bethany Presbyterian church DR..
Burdick delivered another Of his strong
appeals for a spiritual uplift, before it
is too late. There are three great ex-
cuses that are the backing Of sinners
the world over, he said. II am too Toe
he said. Men who meet work kers with
this statement do not stop to realize
that God will admit any pentient, said
the speaker. Others, he ,said,, are afraid
slider the steadfast courage God will
impart. Many, he said, declare they are
as good as church people,, even if they
have not professed Chr rist. This class
the evangelist cited as the most danger
5hsy h sns pebreH emhap,
when the latter are not substitutes fol
the blood of God. There is no excuse
for any who will not accept: Christ ant
no hope for non-Christians in the here
after, was the concluding statement o5
the powerful appeal.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Fourteenth District.

Rev. G.. W. sheafor: 'The Danger OF SIN"
At the Western Avenue Methodist
church Mr.. Sheafor depicted the awful
plight of the sinner who goes suddenly
into the presence Of God unprepared to
meet Him. He presented one after an,
other the excuses popu1ar1y advanced
by non, Christians and showed how they
would retract by the biting conscience
on the Judgment day. After citing the
terrible pangs that the e, 81 sinner would l5
was too late, the evangelist made an
earnest appeal for decision, before those
in the audience should be summarlly
called to meet God. ...~s ..,;,
,H'Realizing the uncertainty Of: life it
is not for you to defer your confessions
and appeals for forgiveness,"' said Mr.
Sheafor. "Who knows but that he may
be called by death tomorrow, or ever
on his way from this church tonight t
Grasp the exceptional opportunity Of
fered by an indulgent God now and g
forth from here prepared to 20 tt
heaven.'
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Seventh District.

Rev. John H. Elliott: 1.-TWO Men,"
At the Swedish tabernacle last night
DR.. Elliott retouched in words the
Savior's powerful picture of the rich
man and the beggar. in life, in death
and after death. The former, he said
tho he may have endowed colleges and
been true Christian. The beggar had
his own life clean. Their life was diff
ferent on earth. In death the beggar
"died and was carried by the angels" "
the rich man "died and was buried -
The evangelist emphasized the differ.
ence in death. -.
"What an awful picture the Son of
God drew of the future Of the. Goddess
man." said DR.. Elliott. g He lifted
up his eyes in hell, being in torment.
the future of the beggar. He was
'comforted -
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Ninth District.

Rev. H. d.. Sheldon: 'The Gospel of Good
Cheer"
At the Swedish Covenant mission an
other Of the touching, inspiring SER
mons that have won such regard for
DR.. Sheldon was delivered. The un-
limited cheering. powers Of the gospel
were emphasized; Where there Is no
other cheer, in the home of the poor,
the gospel will give courage, warmth
that money will not buy-a thing that
is not limited to the possession Of the
rich, for gospel enters the homes of
poor. When peace is needed, when the
brain is racked and the body tired, the
gospel holds it and distributes it lay:
ishly to the man who will profess Chris
tianity,
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Fifth District.

Rev. r. A. Walton: "A Good Fellow,
The modern "good fellow was
assailed by DR.. Walton before an audi
ence which surpassed in numbers any
that has ever assembled in the First
Presbyterian church. :. :.
"a good fellow is that man who lives
only to gain the cheap esteem OF his
fellows, not for character not for
truth, honesty Of purpose. but simply
for having = good time,,' said Nj.
Walton, FttHe is ready to spend his
own or some ones else money to buy
this charmed title. 1t is said that a
good fellow at some one. else expense
would not work UP into frst.class
fertilizer. The desire to be called q
good fellow has cut the throat Of all
noble ambitions.
safe; fh the good Fellow IS coward. The
courageous man is hero, but not
ordinarily a good fellow. The good
fellow is an unclean man; in business
matters he is, wholly untrustworthy
of money, his disposition to borrow ane
to be in debt to every friend he mak(:
stamps him as deadbeat. He laugh
in the face of the most sacred vow
tramples upon the heart of father anC
mother, and trails in the dust every
ambition of true MANHOOD
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Tenth District.

Rev. Henry W. Slough: 9Th eTouch Of Faith"
At the Fourth Baptist church Dr..
Slough drew another of the large au-
diences that have met each night Of the
campaign. In part he said: =.
s'fIt is not the quantity but the quail
ity of the faith that counts with God.
70 touch Jesus anywhere is to be
blessed. One cannot reach out the most
trembling and palsied hand without
feeling the warm grasp Of His mighty
and compassionate hand. Jesus never
discounted faith, however small, OF
where he found it, but honored and
blessed it.
a creed, or to accept intellectual -Propos
sitions before He will reveal Himself
to us. His great challenge is,, it any
man is willing to do my will, he shall
know the, doctrine. He d9es Ices =; not 5;,na eye,
before we come. His great test Is, ART
you willing to do the will of God7 The1
YOU shall know
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
LAST SALOON MEETINGS
Women in Majority at Seven Corners
Establishment and All Raise Hands.

News that the Asher meetings last
night would be the last in the city for
the present, resulted In big audlences
at the Merchants Exchange saloon at
Seven Corners, and Larson & Hall s.,
sol Cedar avenue,
At the first saloon the audience was
made up largely of women. all eagerly
holding up their hands in token OF their
acceptance of new life. At the sec
sidewalk to listen to the service inside.
4 man who wanted to buy a can Of beer
during the exercises was forced to de-
mart unserved. Nearly every man
iioined in tie Kings Business song
IN q manner that made the barroom
ring. Mr.. Asher said that seldom had
he had q more attentive audience. G. j..
Morrill, and Mrs. Asher assisted in both
meetiuRs.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
Sixth District.
Rev. Daniel s. Toy:

Rev Daniel 8 Toy: ..Decisfon:'' -----
At Oliver Presbyterian church DR..
Toy again attracted a large audience
and had great effect upon it as was
evident from the number of requests for
special prayers and confessions. Moses
was the example of the evangelist. But
for his decision, the great lawgiver
would have been lost to the world and
his important part in it's uplift would
be barren. Moses decided for Christ
a Dr. n foy easo and all 1i the ge Great men 1 a
Gods history confessed before they
reached that age. Moses refused the
things that are now so generally de.
sired and accepted the conditions SO
frequently ignored, declared the evan
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-15
CITY WAS READY :.
FOR EYANGELlSIS
PRELIMINARY WORK CAREFULLY
PLANNED. .. -"
Five Thousand Citizens, Working in
Harmonious System, Have Aided in
Making Great Revival Success
One Hundred Churches Co-operated
in Arranging for Work of the Evan
gelists.

COMES mes to elimaE tonight 6ad its be-
ginning in a meeting Of the Ministerial
alliance held last January. In the course
Of an earnest discussion Of methods OF
Chrstiap york Dr. b. Marsha Gf IA p3ro pp3S
unite in series Of simultaneous ser
vices to be held later in the year and
that DR.. j. Wilbur. Chapman and his
associates be invited to take charge OF
these services. rs>E
The suggestion met with a hearty re-
sponse and at the next meeting OF the
alliance the plan of evangelism pro-,
posed was approved and formal lnvl-
tation was forwarded to DR.. Chapman.
DR.. Chapman had accepted the invita-
co.laborers might be expected late in
October At that same meeting an ex-
ecutive committee consisting, OF fifteen
ministers and the game Ton nun n17 Per or iay
man and DR.. W. B. Riley as secretary,
was appointed to organize the work in
the city. The headquarters of this COM
mittee for the past three months has
been in the Y. M. @. A. building, from
| which place hundreds of thousands or
! letters, circulars and cards Of announce
ment have been sent to, all parts Of the
city. -
Five Thousand Workers.
Five thousand workers were selected
and organized into committees, cholrs
and bands of personal workers to serve
during the campaign. One hundred
churches entered into the movement
The city was divided into twelve dis
tricts, afterwards increased to sixteen
in each of which daily. services have
, been held by an evangelist, assisted BY
singer. Other services have been hell
il in i've T .theaters, a dozen saloons, will
the Commercial exchange and the Prod
) uce. exchange, and in mills, schools, fac
! tories and places Of business. The estl
mated expense Of the movement is abou
r $6 900. all of which has been provided
! by voluntary offerings in the chufche
and other places, Of meeting, supple
. mented by contributions from som
, men of business who think the move
I ment Of great advantage to the city:
Great religious interest has prevaile
J. thruout the city during the whole cam
}. paign- Usually each place OF tmeetam e.sa anI
/; has been crowded and a. Over1ioW @ NEE lei
{ ings have been held many times. N
k service has been held without CONVEX
sions, and some days aundIeds nave ae {
D Christian life. On each Sunday durin
E Ithe meetings the number making sue
!, profession in the several services al
proximated 1000 persons. is
Il The meetings will be continued
= many of the churches after the depa
IA Iture Of the evangelists. ],
r a religious census taken before tt
. campaign began enables PASTORS to woI
~ int iligently among those desiring spi
itual help. - s--.4