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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-16
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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23
Mission Of the Wise Men.

When the wise men came from the
East to found Christmas day, they
we're mastered, not by religious con
servatism. but by Christian expecta-
ton. They were dominated, not by
reason, but by intuition-by the
genius represented in Job and in Da-
vid rather than by the calculation OF
Jacob or the saws of Solomon. This
world is saved not by proft-tahng
merely, but by prophet-giving. A few
wise men from the East, acting on in
sight, created that glad epoch OF de-
light in self-sacrifice which we cali
Christmas. Politics and worldly wis
dom fought Christmas to the quick
but Christmas was conducted from
the upper air resounding with rhyth
mic benedictions not only OF peace
but of peace based on good will.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23
Suggested by the Season

OF all beautiful legends. of all beau
tiful verse, of all stories told in all
the life of the whole world, there is
no tale SO wondrously beautiful as the
story of the Christ-child. Every man
and every women must recall those
long-ago, faraway days when first the
story was told to them, the story of
the little babe in the manger of the
star OF Bethlehem, with it's rain OF
fire, the shepherds, the wise men and
the doings of the angels. And with
this memory come back other mem
cries, mental visions of those whom
we loved and who have passed away;
of all the sweet joys of childhood,
when the world was playground in
stead of a workshop; of fond dreams
and childish disappointments. Christ
mas day is time when we must
pause on the journey and rest by the
wayside, sparing the golden hours for
reverie and tasting the sweets of gen.
crosby and tender charity.
By all manner of Judgment and be-
liefs we must concede that, so far as
doing good is concerned, all days
should be Christmas. To bestow
| neckties on Dec. 25, and cross words
all the other 264 days of the year is
| to be like the common sinner who
cheats his neighbor during the week
and prays most energetically on the
| Sabbath.
It isn't the gift, it's the love and
thoughtfulness that prompt it. The
woman who gives because she feels
it duty is practicing deceit, and be-
littling herself If one wishes not to
bestOw a holiday remembrance let one
at least have the courage of ones
feelings and sentiments and be true
and honest about it. No human soul
wants a present that is given grudg-
| ingly.
| According to our way OF thinking it
is a beautiful thing that once year,
one may have the privilege of doing
one is devoted.
The pleasure is so great that, on
Dec. &c one should decide to put a
little of the Christmas spirit into
daily existence.
| Perhaps you don't know it, but it is
| true nevertheless that the more you
| give the more you will have. There
is certainly some great, wonderful
i power that takes away from those
who are grasping and selfish, and
who helps along all those whose
| hearts swing true
There is such a keen pleasure in do
ing for others that it inspires one to
work, to greater endeavor and to bet
ter purposes and higher ambitions
| What is there in other earthly things
| half so satisfying?
The woman who buys pretty clothes
has the satisfaction of looking at her
reflection in mirror, but this salts
| faction is as shadowy, as fitting, as
| unreal as the vision she behOlds. The
woman who fills her House with beau
tiful furnishings rejoices for a certain
time and then the beautiful things
lose in interest. The woman whose
bank account grows with the years
knows that she is safe from poverty
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23

but you can't get any more neart
were an icicle.
Let me tell you something. 1t is
in her heart that you will find genu-
inc contentment. No matter what
horrible anxieties she has suffered,
what dreadful troubles she has drag
ged YEARLY through, what pain and
cares have been hers, she is the one
who knows the calm, sweet comfort
that comes when she looks out into
a gray sky and realizes that she has
done good to some one, that she has
brought a smile to quivering lips, a
light to discouraged eyes, life to a
heart without hope.
She doesn't have to wait until
Christmas. Every day is that-and
more-to her
There is a woman l know, and she
had nothing at all-father, mother,
brother or sister or even home. But
she had something else that lots of
people have not, and that is courage
and she was only a little slip of a girl,
too. But she worked very hard for
quite a number of long years, and
now she has many things which she
has always wanted-little luxuries
that every woman lOves-pretty
things in her home and pretty things
to wear.
The other day in shopping crowd
she met another woman who, like
herself, had carved a little niche in
the world of hard work. and this other
woman said:
Aren't you proud OF yourself for
having accomplished something?
am
The first woman was silent for a
moment Then she said:
No. 1 am not proud of myself,
can't be-yet. I've done so very little
compared with what l want to do, and
learned SO little when l wished to
learn so much. But 1 am tremendous
ly happy that when | want to buy
some little comfort for somebody or
send a box of flowers to somebody or
give some little child a happiness it
is in my power to do SO. My years OF
work have been worth this mighty
sweet reward.
Won't you try to let little more OF
the holy spirit of the hour sink into
your soul, and won't you remember
that your stay and mine and your
! neighbours and everybody's is dread
! fully limited here in this pleasant
vale of smiles and laughter? There's
TO telling where any of us will be this
time next year, so live this Christmas
as happily and as generously as yot
can
There's something else, too. If you
| are going TO help little child hang
up tiny stocking. and if you are now
! answering all sorts of questions about
! Santa Claus and chimneys and rein
| deers and if, on Christmas Eve, you
! go to a little bedside and kiss the
! sweetest little lips in all the world
fall upon your knees and thank God
! for you are blessed!
! A Merry Christmas to you all.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23
aYulen Is scandinavian.

The word "Yule" has in reality
nothing to do with Christmas. It is
an old Scandinavian word, signifyine
the winter solstice, which was always
kept as a feast by the heather Goths.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-23

You're not so much, said the host.
laughing. Il guessed that myself.
When 1 asked him, he put the whole
proposition in as few words as posi-
BILE; all he said was, 'Iashin's o. cham
payne
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anchor, was told that they belonged to
Wall Street brokers, and thereupon he
stutteringly inquired, Where's the Gus
to-tom-ers' ya-yachts7' That's the case
in nutshell. Men In the dry goods trade,
lawyers, politicians, farmers. with no more
knowledge Of Wall Street than a cobble-
stone. speculate in stocks. a business en-
tirely distinct and apart from their own
legitimate vocations, and are surprised
that they should turn up loser.
A WALL STREET BROKER STICKS TO HIS LAST.
Mr.. Ryan left the dry goods business
entirely behind him when he became a
member OF the New York Stock Exchange.
He Joined the Exchange to learn the bust
ness, to stick to it, and to make livelihood
for himself and his own by 1t. In other
words, he forsook entirely and forever the
dry goods last for the Wall Street "last, |"
and he has proved himself to DO a mighty
competent shoemaker"
Here Is the only official biography Of
Mr.. Ryan ever printed. 1t Is terse and to
the point, and was handed out for publlca-
ton at the time Of the Equitable purchase:
Thomas Faulkner Ryan was born In
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Footwear.

of the society was saddled with men who
had used the funds of the society for in
vestments in syndicates for their own per-
sonal profit Since the Ryan purchase
and the selection Of Paul Morton to be chair
man of the hoard Of directors, and since
the trustees have got to work. not one of
these men remains in place OF authority,
and the vast majority Of them are out of the
society altogether,
The policyholders are slowly but surely
coming into their kingdom, and before
many moons have waned they will be con-
vinccd that the Equitable is their property,
their very own property, and that profits
accruing from the management OF its fnan-
cial resources are credited to them to the
very last penny
Some of Mr.. Ryan's critics have paid
him the doubtful compliment OF thinking
him / 9th knave and fool. One can't
very we'll he knave with the eyes OF the
nation scrutinizing him and his acts every
hour in the day, and one Of Mr.. Ryans
business acumen couldn't very we'll be
such fool as not to conform to the demands
of public sentiment at time like this.
The shabby comments and the still shah
bier reasoning Of many Of Mr.. Ryan's critics
carry with them their own condemnation
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in view of the hewing-to-the-lin policy
adopted by the trustees of the Equitable.
Some Of the critics wto denounced the
Equitable hooters have not hesitated to
condemn the man whose very act in pur-
chasing control Of the society and in turn
ing it over to the trustees has resulted in
driving out the looters men who used
their places in the Equitable society for
their own financial profit.
Not a single step since Mr.. Ryan BUR
chased the control of the society and turned
it over to the trustees has been taken which
has not redounded to the benefit Of the
policyholders. Kna wish directors have
been sent adrft. expenditures have been cut
to the bone, the first pra ctical steps toward
mutualizing the society for the benefit of
the policyholders have been taken, con-
fidence in the integrity of the new order
is slowly but surely being esta blished by
the very integrity of their acts; and the
pioneer of the whole affair. Thomas Faux
ner Ryan, has returned to his avocation az
a financial administrator in the varions
institutions with which he is interested.
1t will be but short time. the prediction
is hazarded, until the 600 900 policyholders
OF the Equitable Life Assurance Society
will appreciate to the full and resent as far
as possible the inscrutahle attacks upon
the man who stepped into the breach at the
most crucial period in the Equitable's ex.
AtenoA
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rocks. He paid 81, 500 900 for the SOP shares
which can net him but $500 annual in
come.
A business transaction like this has
aroused curiosity, suspicion and spirit of
incredulty. Yet financial panic was
threatened before Mr.. Ryan purchased the
stock Decentralization had set in in many
quarters over the fearful developments
setforth in the Frick committees report
Ryan didn't purchase that stock for his
health" said some. "Ryan's got deep
laid plot" said others. and SO on and so on,
and the folks who uttered these comments
doubtless Judged Mr., Ryan by their own
standards of financial philanthropy
When the absolute control of the Ryan
stock was turned over to the three trustees
there we're still some who said they knew
positively -Ryan's niger in the woodpile."
As a matter Of cold fact, Mr.. Ryan now
has no more to do with the management
OF the Equitable Life Assurance Society
than it's humblest poicyholder. He can
not take postage stamp from the society
without paying for it like the rankest out
slider.
Everything is vested in the trustees, and
they are the Grand Panjandrums.
Before the Ryan purchase the directorate
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
DECADENCE or CHEWING.
a Tobacco Dealer Attributes the Falling
on to War on SDitters

The crusade against e1pectorating in
public places has cut into the tobacco bust
ness, said dealer to a customer. Some
years ago ] kept tobacco cutter on my
counter and boy was so engaged in cut
ting plugs for customers that he had little
time for anything else.
Now we cut up few plugs in the regula.
ton size and put them in a canister. Twenty
five cuts will last several days where we
used to sell that many in half day. How
ever, what we have lost in that way Is more
than offset by sales of cigars and cigarettes
and smoking tobacco.
Ten years ago I had a regular trade in
chewing tobacco that paid half OF my rent.
| would have to quit business il | relied
upon such a trade now.
Several smaller dealers whom l know
do not keep plug in stock. And yet there
was time when the old tobacco chewer
was more welded to his quid than the old
topper was to his dram. He chewed wher.
ever he went, in church, in society and AZ
places of amusement
The war on spitters has stopped all
that"
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and in addition Mr.. Ryan had many gigantic

enterprises of his own to care for.
This cool. dispassionate, silent Mr.. Ryan
even now does not mention Mr.. Whitney's
name without evidences OF emotion. Mr. i.
Whitney was his earliest friend and in later
life his business partner, and the fondness
and loyalty Of one for the other form almost
a sentimental chapter in the prosaio bust
ness life.
Mr. Ryan, like many other eminent fig-
ures in the financial world. hasn't reached
his elevation without encountering platoons
of citizens who want something for nothing
This is an experience through which all
who attain wealth must pass. In this woy
personal animositcs are created and hos
tile criticisms evoked.
Most men Of the world can tell yards Of
yarns on this feature Of their careers. But
up to the present day Mr.. Ryan has yet to
record his first failure in business enter
prise. Concerning his purchase Of the 502
shares OF Equitable society stock which gave
him the control of its affairs, and which
cont rol he has turned over without reserva-
ton to the three trustees. Messrs. Cleve-
land, O'Brien and Westinghouse, Mr.. Ryan
found one Of the great life insurance COM
panies OF the world fast going upon the
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What kind Of man is Thomas F. Ryan
be who bought control OF the Equitable
Life Assurance Society and turned It over
TO the three trustees, ex-President Grover
Cleveland, Supreme Court Justice Morgan
]. 'Brien and George Westinghouse? Who
L. he, where did he hail from, has he hoofs
and horns. or is he sprouting angels wings?
tis doubtful after the furore Of the last few
weeks II Mr. Ryan himself could satisfac-
torily answer these questions. Enough has
been written and printed about him within
a month to encircle the globe. There must
be something in a man who can thus
divert newspaper and magazine readers
from the current and highly interesting and
instructive topics OF the day to himself
and his doings.
Criticisms, keen, unfair. untruthful and
ungenerous, have been hurled at this man.
Commendation has taken a holiday. Fair
play has been on picnic. Straightforward,
analytical, square utterances have been;
on an early summer junket.
I'm not much OF talker,' says Mr..
Ryan as he goes on his way, amused at much
OF the criticism, Indifferent to the biting
harshness OF disappointed and envious
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THOMAS FAULKNER RYAN.

ones, alert always to the antics Of avowed
adversaries, and quito unmoved by the
feigned or actual ignorance Of others con-
corning him and his acts.
This man Is big boy in many OF his
ways, but he has big boys real courage
and mans intrepidity Of spirit that knows
no bluster or bombast. He is silent, yet
merry-faced, cool. Is "a years old and looks
40 no New Yorker Is better dressed or
groomed, and he smokes little drinks a
little, eats little, goes to church little,
bubble-bubbles little, golf-golfs little,
yacht-yachts a little. knows men and quickly
discerns their motives, loves his family
much, and with the Japs believes: After
victory, tighten your helmet strings
His full name il Thomas Faulkner Ryan,
and he was born in Nelson county, Va,
Oct. II, 1851. With him it is not quite cor
rect that
Oc,obcr's child Is born for voc.
And llte's viclssltudes must know.
Hes now worth s25, 900 900. II a cent,
and began his business career as clerk
in Baltimore dry goods shop in 1868. In
those days cash was scarce with Thomas
J.. Ryan, but he had sand, integrity and
intellect. Moreover, with Disraeli, he had
'audaoity, audacity and still more au-
dacity," and then, too, he had organization;
organization, organization, and oonoen-
tration, concentration and concentration.
So many men scatter that it Is easy to see
why they fail in life's battle. Also In the
early days Mr.. Ryan had silence as one
OF his best assets. Cabling men reap
what they sow-wind.
He wasn't a dry goods clerk long. In
1870 he came to New York and four years
later joined the New York Stock Exchange
That's school for financial giants.
So few understand the actual character
istics or personnel Of Stock Exchange men,
bers that word or two may not be con-
sidered depression. A cheat never lasts
on tho New York Stock Exchange. 1t is
q fair fight, free for all between men,
many of whom are the most generous,
the keenest. the kindiest and the most
lkable Of any in ne country. In twink
ling they know Ii cheat or humbug.
In the wink of an eyelid they discover
a fraud. Amid the swiftest competition
they preserve their own honor. Once in a
while a measly little rascal hobs up. but he
is here to-day and gone tomorrow. Why,
then, is so much money lost on the New York
Stock Exchange, or rather, to be more spe-
cific. why do thousands lose their all by
operating in Wall Street?
For an answer the question may he asked
Did you ever know a Wall Street broker
TO go outside of his legitimate business
field to speculate in dry goods drug shops,
shoe shops, grocery shops or any other
business not strictly his own9 That moss
covered joke perpetrated years and years
ago by the late William r. Travers will |
furnish an illustration.
Travers sailed into Newport harbor, |
remarked the splendid feet OF yachts at
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Nelson county. Va, Oct. II, 1851 Mar.
ried Ida NJ. Barry Of Baltimore on Nov rs
1873. and has five sons. He began business
life in 1858 in a Baltimore dry goods house
from which he graduated into Wall Street
in 1870. He became n member OF the New
York Stock Exchange in 1874. and afterward
became interested in consolidating and ex-
tending street railway and lighting systems
In New York, Chicago and other cities.
In the reorganization OF various rail-
ways in the South he also became inter-
ested as well as in coal properties in Ohio
and West Virginia and railways in Ohio. He is
vice-president OF the Morton Trust Com
pany, trustee in the American Surety Com
pany, director in the Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company, the Hooking Valley Railway
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany, the Consolidated Tobacco COMPANY,
the National Bank OF Commerce, the
Union Exchange Bank the Metropolitan
Securities Company the Electric Storage
Battery Company and many other cor
porations.
In 10000 he acquired large interest
in the Seaboard Air Line He was a dele
gate from Virginia to the Democratic ma
tional convention In 1904. and did much
to bring about the cordial acceptance Of
the Parker gold telegram. He is a men,
Der Of the Chamber Of Commerce, Metro
politan. Manhattan. Union. Lawyers and
Catholic Clubs, the Ne York Athletic Club
and the Southern Society,"
That's modest enough, but not enough
for curious newspaper and magazine
readers. Lots Of folks like to read about
men and care little for events. For many
years Mr.. Ryan was tho late William Col
Inns Whitneys chief lieutenant. Few men
in the last twenty-five years, Republicans or
Democrats rich men or any other kind Of
men, we're better beloved or more adj
mired than Mr.. Whitney. The poor Of MANY
cities loved him and mourned his death.
He was fond Of his friends, had mis-
chievous twinkle of the eyes for his DO
litical and business adversaries, played his
LIES game squarely and over the table and
never turned his back on friend or a
foe.
Mr.. Whitney was real live human man,
and Mr.. Ryan was his constant companion
for nearly thirty years. Outside of any
qualities that an environment Of this kind
might bring to Mr.. Ryan, he could not have
been the closest financial adviser of Mr..
Whitney for so many years had he not
himself possessed the very qualities and
characteristics which were Mr.. Whitney's
to a very marked degree,
Mr.. Whitney had positive genius for
organization. concentration and silence.
So has Mr.. Ryan. Mr.. Whitney was never |
a talker; he was doer. SO is Mr.. Ryan.
Mr. Whitney upbuilded and did not destroy. |
Mr. Ryan ditto. For nearly ten years be-
fore his death Mr.. Whitney enjoyed him
self He didn't work two months in a year.
The burden Of the Whitney properties was
thrown upon the shoulders Of Mr.. Ryan.
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M>1's and Boys Bathing
Suits.

QUITS.
I'd II.
Cotton Bathing Suits, two-pece 74c
All Wool Bathing Suits, two gar.
mcnts, in plain blue ........ Sl.7S
! All Wool Suits, two-piece, fancy.
S1.8S
Silk Striped Wool Suits, two-piecc,
ran ring in price from $3.50 to .SO.4S
Boys One piece Cotton Bathing
Suits, .......,........,.,.. 69c
Boys All Wool Two.pi.ce Suits.
plain blue ..............$ 1.49
Boys All Wool Suits, silk striped,
s2.is and .........,..,,$ 2.49
Long Sleeve Suits will be found in
Sporting Goods Department, Fifth
Floor.
Wolnen's Bathing Suits.
I'd II.
Bathing Suits, made OF brillian-
tine. III shirt waist effects, necks
square and trimmed with black and
white braid; sold elsewhere at $3.50;
sPeci-l ..................... $3.50
Women's Alpaca Bathing Suits,
in SHIRT waist effects; round yokes
with clusters Of stitching; sold else
where ct $3.50; special &c.. $3.50
Other Bathing Suits up to $3.50.
Wonen's Beach Robes, made Of
black alpaca, with large round collars
trimmed with bands OF white al
AGA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S4.OJ
Bathing Caps and Suit Bags
Notion Dept. LIST FL. 35th 81.
AT 19c Gaps, made OF cashmere
plain, polka dotted and plaid effects;
also pure Rubber Caps; sold else
where at Csc and SOC.
AT &c Caps, made Of cotton mate
rial, Waterproofed.
AT zoe Caps, made hi mercerized
satin and chsngeable silk.
Other Caps, 3sc. up to sI.l4.
Bathing Suit Bags, each, &C.,
44c. and SIC.
For the youngsters who like TO 90 |
wading- Seaside Pantalettes, 5sc. and
CSC.
Footwear.
I'd H.. s5,h ST.
Women's Black or White Canvas
Bathing !Oxfords, cork soles 49c
Women's Black or White Woven
Braid Oxfords, without soles. 400
Women's Black Canvas Oxfords,
rubber soIes zoe
Mems Black or White Canvas Ok
fords, cork sole ....,.,...,...... 63c