The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-11-23
GIVING OF TARoY JUSTICE.

News staff, now editor of the Clipper
Of Cleveland. pens the following edi.
!orial in the last issue under the cap.
lion of THE Career of Doc Beeman: F."
The world has done but scant Jus.
lice TO Doc" Beeman, either in life
pr in death 1t was a career half pa.
lhetic, half tragic and altogether pics
luresque that came to an end in a
downtown suite of rooms on Erie
street, the other day. In death many
Of the harsh details that obscured
lair consideration of his life were dis
solved in the perspective. AS, per-
maps, the soul of the man shed it's
weak and tarnished shell of flesh, so
iisregarding the exterior faults in sin.
rere and genuine admiration of the
sterling framework Of manliness which
they hid.
How Beeman, struggling, poor
physician, came TO Cleveland years ago
and fought out his great discoveries
In pepsin, how he put his product on
the market, peddling it in baskets
after he had made it in the small and
crude laboratory of his officeores1-
dence, how the chance remark of a
girl led him to give his pepsin devel-
opment, always benefit to the human
race, the commercial value of COM
Dination with popular chewing gum
md how he made himself rich, all
these are known as well in Frisco as
N New York, or in Cleveland. After
that, the public's chief impression of
him is as sport, lavishly spending
lhe money which he made.
Doc" Beeman did act fcolishIy
Ifter he had made his fortune. but 1t
was warm, human, lovable and for
sivable foolishness. He did not turn
Dounder; he didn't try to ram his
way into cheap society He made
MS money honestly and honorably.
rhe inventor of pepsin gum partially
md accidentally due 10 the chance
word of another, was not stolen from
he real inventor to enrich the man
who was capable of turning it to eoos
tccount. as so many inventions are.
indeed, Beeman could haye been par
Toned had he rewarded the woman
who suggested pepsin gum to him
With box of candy, or nothing az ALL
Instead, however Beeman, whose
york, for years before he even saw the
roman placed pepsin gum in the way
II final reality, made her immensely
Hch, so that today her wealth equals
tis. And this was out of pure, sheer,
nforced gratitude. TruiT, this one
tct had atoned for all else Beeman
'ver did, even had he ever wronged
any one, which he did not none save
himself
There is an impression that Beeman
ras prodigal. Well, so he was, with |
ais friends. When he died his estate, |
instead of being impoverished, was
rorth more than at any time in his |
life Doc Beeman, when ne died, |
jespite the lavish way he spent money !
having good time" and despite the |
generous gifts he made his friends, |
the enormous amount he annually |
N'NlNAi'Nu ~ Niitti n.y. IGu I6du1
rash in the bank, available instantly, |
IN a second that John D. Rockefeller
probably has. He owned s128.OOO |
worth of stock and a quarter of a
million or more was invested in gilt |
edged real estate.
Even Beemans separation from his
wife was so different from the vul.
sarity of Corey's, from his fellow gum
Whites, and the rest of |
American industrial millionaires as TO |
soften any hard feeling in the most |
Drudish and unhuman of breasts. /
Mrs. Beeman and he were the best OF |
friends to the day of his death. When /
ne became rich, he started a manner I
IF living that was uncongenial to her.
She went to Florida; he stayed In
Clevel2nd-and spent his money here.
Whenever he visited in the South he
Visited with her and when she came
20 Cleveland she was his guest No |
scandal. no divorce stencil, no mire in /
which to drag his own and his chill
lren's names. Beeman was educated,
perhaps that partly explains it. His
wife was a good woman, one of eu1-
iure and refinement. These being the
acts, and common life being inn
possible, they quietly and without
'stentation parted.
So Doc" Beeman went his way,
happiness with vigor and
that doomed his chase
o failure from the start. Pleasure is
! tickle creature. Courted too ardu.
,usly she fees. she must be eoaxed
lot forced. And so the time came
when pleasure was denied this poor
Id soldier. Long before his health
'roke completely the reward he had
triven for had been seized and proved
shed in his grasp, the goal he rushed
oward had been won and found worth.
ess.
And then Doc" Beeman sought the
eelusion and rest of his bachelor
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