The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-14

cess. The one thing that would please l him more than anything else would be 1 the feeling that he had been of use | to some young man who is beginning the same sort of a fight that he has | been through. MT. McMillin is not one of the self made variety of men. He is a self-ed-
 ucated. self-cultured man. And his
 knowledge is practical, and his culture, | learned from men as well as from
 books, Is virile though fine-grained
 But he openly admires anyone who knows any subject more fully than he does. Perhaps he owes something to , the fact that an iron constitution al- lows him to work with only four or five hours sleep a night. His mastery of chemistry, begun in his little labora- tory at Ironton, and which has result ed in his being the greatest force in changing the gas business into sci ence: his geological research. which commenced in the West Virginia Noun tains when he was a soldier; his stu dies in ancient history at Columbus; hts love of birds; these are only the beginning of a long list. He is a thor ough, practical student of national af- fairs and of economic questions. He is still a Republican, though the color has changed.
 He believes in organization, of both capital and labor. Trusts" he said not long ago. have always existed. The claim that great organizations are smothering individual enterprises is not true They supplant smaller corpora tions and not individuals; but if true, that should not be to their discredit. The railroad car builder supplanted the individual stage coach builder The cut and wire nails supplanted the nail hammered out by the blacksmith. The English Parliament refused for some years to charter a gas company. be- cause gas lighting would possibly throw out of employment 2.000 men engaged in whale fishing, from which sperm oil came. We laugh at them now. ana our children will laugh at arguments which are now being made against combinations He believes-and he has proved that 1t is practicable by in troducing it in many of his companies that labor should participate in the profits of a business. He thinks that workingmen should be organized and condemns the unions only in so far as they tyrannlze over brother-workmen who do not see fit to join them.
 He became interested in astronomy while he lay by the camp fire in war days. His interest grew with the years and he built hanusoHAe ooSSi No'OiS for the Ohio State University few years ago to perfect its astronomical equipment The love of birds that made him read Audubon is only one side of his love of nature. He has lodge deep in the Maine forest, where he takes all of John Burroughs books and. striking off into the wilderness away from sound or sight, except of the wood creatures he loves, expands and becomes boy again to the tune of the birds. the rustic of the leaves and the words of the gentle nature-1over. A letter from the woods carries this self explaining sentence. "I enter the forest at D o'clock tomorrow morn ing"
 A friend called on MT. McMillin one day some years ago and asked for Col onel Wilson, his partner.
 Have you a morning paper?" said Mir McMllin,
 Why. what's the matter?" was the anxious query.
 Look up the art exhibitions and youll find him. He's gone wild over pictures"