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who was to become the master mind

who was to become the master mind
In the railway world.
He entered Wall Street WHEEL in his
teens and saved enough money so
that he could purchase a seat on the
Stock Exchange on August 10, 1871.
He was what is known as d @$2 man."
executing orders for commission
brokerage Arms. but he watched the
market. Indeed, 1t is said that he
obtained the money to buy his seat on
one of the turns of the market that
were engineered IN those days by Jay
Gould and Jim" Fisk.
Two years after he bought his seat
he organized the private banking
house of E. H. Hartman & Co., which
later became known as Hartman &
Co. A special partner in this firm
was Nicholas Fish, a brother of Stuy-
vesant Fish, with whom he was to
have many years later a bitter per-
sonal as well as railroad fight. His
uncle, Oliver H. Hartman, a wealthy
dry goods merchant, was on social
terms with the Vanderbilts, and In
that way the banking house obtained
a part Of the Vanderbilt business.
For the next few years there was
nothing to distinguish the Hartman
firm from a hundred others doing
business in Wall Street. He had
wealthy relatives in the city, but he
asked no favors of them. Early in
life he married Miss Mary Averell,
of Ogdensburg, N. Y, whose family
had made money in the building of
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Cleaned Up Boston.

The remarkable achievement of
Arthur Dehon Hill, the young Dis
trict Attorney of Boston, who has
sent a dozen municipal criminals to
prison, Is described In an article by
Clement L. Pollock, which appears in
the issue Of Harper's Weekly. "To
get a proper idea of HILL" says the
author. sit should be mentioned that
he comes from a family of scholars,
book-worms and blue-bloods. One
day, SO the story goes, little Arthur
climbed over a barricade of volumes
and made his way to his father.
Papa said the boy, I'm hungry. I
want something to eat We'll, eat a
book, eat a book the professor is
said to have replied" But IL the
young District Attorney was at first
despised and derided by the criminal
politicians, officials and contractors.
he soon showed his mettle. The as
tonishing list of persons whom he
sent to prison, the indictment OF thir-
teen steel firms for conspiracy to rob
the city, the reaching out after the
"man higher up" until the highest
felt none too secure-all this is told
in this admirable and entertaining
article.
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.MEMOIRS OF DAN RICE" THE
CLOWN OF OUR DADDIES.
Dan Rice in His memoirs" Tells In
side Mysteries of Show Life.

Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
to reply that the race of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran-
teed to make you roar with laughter.
The author presents to the public a
volume of the great TESTERS most
pungent jokes, comic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes, sketches of ad-
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions; wise and witty, serious,
satirical, and sentimental sayings of
the sawdust arena of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor Of the
famous Zone Horse Show" was more
of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
you postpaid for $3.50 by Book Pub
fishing House, 134 Leonard street,
New York.
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Mean Man.

The newest mean man" story: In
a western county of Kansas the dead
body of an unknown man was recent
ly discovered. In his pockets they
found 500 in bank notes and a big
revolver.
What about it," asked the inno-
cent one.
you would expect that they'd
have used that hundred in finding his
relatives, or failing in that, have CIV
en- him a decent burial, now, wouldn't
your"
Sure"
well, they didn't" is the answer
"They arranged his dead body before
a justice of the peace for carrying
concealed weapons and fined him
800 and buried him in the Potter's
Field."-Kansas City Journal.
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Among the Workers.

In Chicago the tendency of wages
In the various trades is upward.
takers International Union, with
a membership of 2100 in 1898, now
shows a total of 1920.
During two months th~irty-seven
new locals of building laborers have
been formed in different cities of the
country.
The International Molders' Union
has paid since January, 1896, when
benefits were established for sick sick
and death benefits a total of $2,504,-
721.
Accidents in coal mines of the Uni
ted States during the last calendar
year resulted in the death of 1925
men and injury to 1916 more.
The trades in the building industry
of Jamaica, West Indies, are organic
Ing into unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
A convention of the Massachusetts
Federation of State, City and Town
Employees, held in Lynn recently,
adopted a resolution in favor of a
$3.50 wage and pay for all holidays.
In the fight to stamp out tubercu-
losis now being carried on by various
unions throughout the country, the
Bill Posters Association is the latest
to offer assistance.
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PRESSED HARD
Coffee's Weight on Old Age.

When prominent men realize the
Injurious effects of coffee and the
change in health that Postum can
bring they are glad to lend their tes-
timony for the benefit of others.
A superintendent of public schools
in North Carolina says:
my mother, since her early child
hood. was an inveterate coffee drink
er. and had been troubled with her
heart for a number of years, and COM
planned of that weak all over feeling
and sick stomach.
Some time ago | was making an
Official visit to a distant part OF the
country and took dinner with n of
the merchants of the place. noticed
a somewhat peculiar favour of the
coffee, and asked him concerning it.
He replied that it was Postum.
II was so pleased with it, that af-
ter the meal was over. ! bought a
package to carry home with me, and
had wife prepare some for the next
meal. The whole family liked 1t so
well that we discontinued conee and
used Postum entirely.
Il had really been at times very
anxious concerning my mothers con-
dition. but we noticed that after using
Postum for a short time she felt so
much better than she did prior to its
use, and had little trouble with her
heart and no sick stomach, that the
headaches were not so frequent, and
her general condition much improved.
This continued until she was as well
and hearty as the rest of us.
Il know Postum has benef1ted my
self and the other members OF the
family, but not in SO marked a degree
as in the case of my mother, as she
was a victim of long standing.
Read 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE" In
pkgs.
There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
n appears from time to time. They
are genuine. .,ss. and full Of human
interest.
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Women in DAVIS News

Miss Hilda Martindale is senior in
spector OF factories for Ireland.
The clubwomen of Chicago puzzled
over the question of a lawful costume
Tor working women.
Mrs. R. H. Tucker, of Spokane,
Wash, is the first woman wireless
operator in the world.
The State Federation Of Women's
Clubs in Kentucky three years ago be-
gan a campaign against illiteracy.
Miss Gertrude E. Curtiss, of Brad
ford, Pa, is the first negro girl to
become a dentist in the Eastern
States.
A board of five women has been
appointed by the Governor Of Texas
to examine trained nurses who apply
for licenses.
Ethel Due, seventeen, and her sis
ter, Vera, fifteen, swan the Narrows,
New York Harbor. Beatrice, twelve,
was taken into a boat when near the
finish.
William Watson, the poet, was
married at. Bath, England, to Miss
Pring, of Hill of Howth, Ireland.
When Mile. Helen Miropolosky
made her debut as a member of the
Paris bar she was attired in a simple
black gown, relieved by the conven-
tional white barrister's bib.
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EDWARD HENRY HARTMAN.
Mr.. Hartman died. 1t will be inn
possible to tell without an autopsy,

Mr.. Hartman died. It will be i'm
possible to tell without an autopsy,
and no autopsy will be held"
Edward Henry Hartman, for
fifteen years the most potential fac
tor in the management of American
railways, fought his way to the COM
handing position he held against OBJ
stacles. which would not only have
discouraged but would have worn out
most men, and this after he was more
than forty years old.
1t was said of him, after he started
on his way to the place he finally oc-
cupied in the business world, that he
was the greatest financier among rail-
road men and the greatest railroad
man among financiers. In the later
years he was accorded t,e place of a
great %inancier among financiers, and
a great railroad man among railroad
men, combining The qualities u the
two more than any other person of
mis- time,
He was called the Incarnation or
Wall Stfeet. but ne had an imagine
ton which gave TO him a yiew Of rail-
road trains carving theIr foads OF
wealth across 2 continent, and he
bought, rebuilt and equipped those
railroads SO that they were ready for
the business when 1t came. He was a
builder and never a wreckef Of rail-
roads, and it was his boast ehat he
had never been connected With q sys-
tenn that ever defaulted in q payment.
Until after he was more than forty
years old there was nothing to indi-
cate that MI. Hartman was to occupy
the place he won among the giants of
the business world. He had been in
Wall Street since he was a boy, and
had the reputation of being a shrewd
trader, but he had never shown his
wonderful ability as a builder of rail-
roads and his ambition to control the
great transportation systems of this
country.
Mr.. Hartman was born in Hemp
stead, L. l., February 25, 1848, and
his father was Orlando Hartman, Jr.,
an Episcopal clergyman. There were
six children in the family, and his
early life was n of poverty, with
oftentimes not enough money to sup
ply the wants of all the family. His
father moved to Jersey City, and
young Hartman received his educa-
ton in the public schools there and in
an Episcopal school, which he could
attend on account of the sons of min
listers receiving a reduced rate for
tuition.
His mother came from one of the
old families of New Jersey, and from
her he inherited many of the traits
and that strong personality which dis
tinguished him among the great men
of his day. In the early sixties Mrs.
Hartman inherited enough money to
settle the bread and butter problem
of the family for all time.
Both the father and mother were
born and bred aristocrats and had
what is oftentime the bane of the
poor-pride of birth. They knew few
people and cared to know no more.
and the children were taught to fol
low the social line closely. To the
outside world the Harrimans were
cold, reserved and naughty, and
democracy vas never taught the bow
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miles in ten hours and were half way

miles in ten hours and were half way
to the seth parallel.
Again there was a few hours stop,
and they went on again before mid
night. The weather and going were
ever better. The surface, except as
interrupted by ~infrequent ridges, was
as level as the glacial fringe from
Hecla to Columbia, and harder.
They marched something over ten
hours, the dogs being often on the
trot, and made twenty miles. Near
the end of the march they rushed
across a lead 100 yards wide, which
buckled under the sledges and finally
broke as the last sledge left it.
They stopped in sight of the seth
parallel, in a temperature of forty
degrees below. Again a scant sleep,
and they were on their way once more
and across the seth parallel. The
bitter air was as keen as frozen steel.
A little longer sleep than the
previous ones had to be taken here,
as all were in need of it. Then on
again.
Before Peary turned in he took an
observation, which indicated the
party's position as 1925.
In twelve hours they had made
forty miles,.
After many more perils and when
they were at the end of their en-
durance the pole was reached on
April 6.
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The National Game.

Long Fred Falkenberg held Detroit
to five hits, Ty Cobb getting two OF
the safe ones.
outfelder '.Ty" Cobb has stolen
more bases to date this season than
during all last year.
Much sooner than was expected
has been heard the ancient slogan OF
"Wait until next year."
Chickering Evans, pitcher on the
Hartford (~Connecticut) League team
has been sold by owner James H
Clarkins to the Boston Nationals fol
$500.
Red Murray is not only a slugger
but he is a speedy base runner.
There will be nothing doing in the
Mike Donlin-Magee deal between the
Philadelphia and New York clubs.
81 Seymour is fielding just as bril-
liant as ever, and none of the young.
sters have anything on the veteran.
Baseball men consider that the
Washington Club has been extrava.
gantly run since Cantillon has beer
in control.
Brooklyn appears to be the hoodoe
team for Umpire Kane, for tina,
official has more trouble in games
with the Superbas than any Of the
other teams.
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the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg Railroad, and her share of the
estate strengthened his hands for the
battles that were to come.
In 1883 the Hartman house was
wealthy enough to W $4,000 shares
of Illinois Central stock, and Mr.. Har-
riman was elected a director. Stuy-
vesant Fish had been on the board
since 1877, and the men became
warm business and social friends.
The first large amount of money Mr..
Hartman made was through the sale
to the Illinois Central of the Yazoo
Valley and Mississippi Valley Rail
road, which he engineered.
Wall Street began to take notice
of Mr.. Hartman in the years hat fol-
lowed. He became vice-president of
the Illinois Central, and the right
hand man of Mr.. Fish, financing the
Seais which rounded out the Illinois
ntrai system into 1870 mise1 EEeh-
ing its capitalization and more than
aebiing It's earnings.
Mr.. FISK and Mr.. Hartman fore
tailed the Louisville and Nashville
The MOST formidable rival of the liz
lots Central b. purchasing IN indie
peAdent 4 between Memphis and
New Orleans, giving the only direct
highway between those cities.
Mr.. Hartman was . small man,
slight IN build, narrow chested and
looking anything n1t the part OF q
great railroad builder. tie had a head
out of proportion to his body, and his
most striking feature was his eyes.
They looked through one, and
snapped when he gave his orders.
E. H. Harriman's personal fortune
has been variously estimated at from
$5O,000,000 to $80,o00,0 900, though
the former figure is one which ap-
pears to be most in consonance with
such facts as are known regarding
Mr.. Harriman's security holdings.
At Mr.. Harriman's bedside when
he died were Mrs. Hartman, Mr.<and
Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, w. Averell
Hartman, the Misses Mary and Carol
Hartman, Roland Hartman, Orlando
H. Hartman, the railroad mans
brother; Mrs. Cornelia N. Simons, his
sister; DR.. Lyle and two nurses.
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The Ascent of the Aviator.

In the air one minute-"Anothef
fool inventor"
In the air three minutes-"Hasn't
he killed himself YETI"
In the air five minutes-sAll the
fools amt dead yet"
In the air thirty minutes-"Mr.
Ayrider, the well known aviator"
In the air one hour-"Our distin-
guished fellow countryman."
In the air one hour and a quarter
THE wizard of the air."
In the air one hour and a half
s.The Legion of Honor could have
been bestowed OF no worthier man."
From Life.
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low him to make a lat tde obserya-
ton immediately.
He believed he coulH do this Il
weather and leads permitted, but had
two alternatives in reserve in case
he failed to make the proposed dis
lance.
The first of these was to force u
last march, but rest until he could re-
sumo the trail; the second was tn
make a forced march, using ligh.
sledges and double teams of dogs,
accompanied by only two members OF
the party, while the remainder stayed
in camp in the background.
All possibilities that would upses
these plans were the increasing preva-
lence of open leads and non-negotia,
bic water and the realization that one
twenty-four hours gale would spell
certain disorganization and place al:
in peril.
After midnight, refreshed by a few
hours good sleep, Peary struck the
trail, leaving the others to break
camp and follow.
Climbing the ridge in the rear Of
his iglOss he drew in another notch of
his belt, the third since he set out.
Every one of the party, man and dog,
was slim as razors and muscles as
hard as possible. The morning broke
fine, the wind of the previous two
days having subsidized, while the going
proved the best they had yet struck.
Now they found it easy to recognize
the large old foes, which were hard
and clear and surrounded by ridges.
Sometimes they passed over foes
and through creyices and sometimes
up huge Drinks.
Continuing, the narrative says: A
good pace was set for about ten hours.
Twenty-Five miles took Peary we'll be-
yond the 88th parallel.
A few hours sleep and they were
on the trail again. AS the going was
now practically horizontal, they were
unhampered and could travel as long
as they pleased. They made twenty
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Gu c !
Aen Iih
Question

DO you know of any woman who ever received any
benefit from taking Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Com
pound?" :
If any woman who is suffering with any ai1ment peculiar
to her sex will ask her ~neighbors this question, she will be
surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in
this country where women cannot be found who have been
restored to health by this famous old remedy, made
exclusively from a simple formula Of roots and herbs.
During the past 80 years we have published thousands
of letters from these grateful women who have been cured
by Lydia E. Pilkham's Vegetable Compound, and never
in all that time have we published a testimonial without
the writer's special permission. Never have we knowingly
published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine.
Here is one Just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts
that this is a true and honest statement of a womans expert
ence with Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound write
and ask her.
Houston, Texas" When 1 first began taking Lydia E. Pink
sick for three years with female troubles, chronic dyspepsia,
and a liver trouble. 1 had tried several doctors medicines, but
nothing did me any good.
"FOr three years I lived on medicines and thought / would
never get well, when L read an advertisement of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it.
"My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did
me SO much good 1 continued its use. / am now a well woman
and enjoy the best of health.
81 advise all women suffering from such troubles to give
regret it, for it will surely cure you"-Mrs. Bessie L. Hicks,
$40 Cleveland St, Houston.
Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish surely
not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should it
not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks.
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cUTIcURA CURED HIS ECZEMA.
HumOr Came on Legs and Ankles
Could Not Wear Shoes Because
of Bad Scaling and Itching.

II have been successfully cured of dry
eczema. | was inspecting the removal OF
noxious weeds from the edge of a river and
was constantly in the dust from the weeds.
At night | cleansed my limbs but felt a
prickly sensation. | paid no attention to it
for two years but | noticed a scum on my
legs like fish scales. | did not attend to it
until it came to be too itchy and sore and
began getting two running sores. My
ankles were all sore and scabby and l could
not wear shoes. l had to use carpet and
felt slippers for weeks. / got a cake of the
Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura ONT
ment. In less than ten days | could put
on my boots and in less thar three weeks
/ was free from the COMPOUNDED itching.
Capt. G. P. Blisz, Chief of Police, Morris.
Manitoba. Mar. 20, '07, and Sept. q. 'OS."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies. Boston, Mass.
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Sea Water For Figs.

An American firm has established
a large fig packing house at Nazli,
the chief producing centre of Asia Mi
nor. The fruit is moistened for pack
ing with sea water, which has to be
sent In barrels from Smyrna, 12O
distant on the coast. Heretofore the
fig crop has been transported to
Smyrna for final drying and packing.
1t has averaged about 10000 camel
loads a year, a camel carrying $50
pounds.-New York Press.
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PEARl SEEKS NORTH POLE
WITH PARTY Of EsK|MOS
Had Worked For This Triupph
Thirty-two Years.
STORY OF COLD AND HARDSHIP
Explorer Starts For the Goal, Leav-
ing Rest to Break Camp and Fol-
low-Au Lean as Raz0rs With
Muscles as Hard.

low-Au Lean as RazOrs With
Muscles as Hard.
London.-The London Times prints
Commander Robert E.. Peary's story,
taking up the narrative at the 88th
parallel, where, having parted with
his last supporting party, he was left
to face the final stage of the journey
to the pole himself with only a party
of five Eskimes.
Peary says this was the moment
for which he had worked ~thirty-two
years.
He and his party were in the best
condition for the task, and he adds
that their equipment and supplies at
this point were beyond his most rosy
expectations.
The Eskimos were all thoroughly
experienced men, full of confidence in
their leader, ready to obey him in
everything and to risk every danger.
Two had been his personal COM
p~anions to the furthest north three
years ago and two others were in.
Clark's supporting party on that oc-
casion.
The fifth was no less eager and
willing than the others, being in
spired by the hope of a reward which
would enable him to win the consent
of his fiancee's father to their mar
riage. The dogs, too, were all spe-
cially selected survivors of 1913 which
started from Cape Columbia, all of
them powerful males in fine shape.
The sledges were also in excellent
condition, while the supplies carried
were ample for forty days or for
ninety if circumstances should neces-
state the sacrifice of dogs.
For this final march Peary deter
mined to make every effort to accom-
plish five marches of fifteen miles
each so as to reach the end of the
fifth long enough before noon to al
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, HARTMAN HAD CANCER.
Professor struempell, of Vienna, Thus
Diagnosed His .Ailment.

Vienna, Austria.-Professor Adolf
Struempell, the Viennese specialist
whom the late E. H. Hartman anne
to Europe to consult, now admits that
when he saw Mr.. Hartman in July he
diagnosed his complaint as cancer.
Professor ~Struempell, while at
Breslau, sent the following signed
statement to the Associated Press:
Il diagnosed Mr.. Harriman's COM
plant as carcinoma of the stomach at
the end of July. / could not, of
course, communicate this diagnosis to
private inquirers, but l informed MI.
Harriman's American physicians of
it, and that the conditions did not in
dictate that an operation was hope.
less. / fastened Mr.. Harriman's de.
Darture homeward."
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Mermaid For Breakfast.

A stranger meal than any ever par
taken by Frank auckland or the most
hardened and cosmopolitan traveller
is described by Juan Francisco de st.
Antonio in his account of his travels
and adventures in the Philippine ISL
ands, published at Manila in 1913.
In this curious little work the author
tells us that he once breakfasted off
a mermaid, and he further gravely
describes its flavor as being like
fresh fat pork.