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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-19

L.edyard and his oldest brother. Dan. They seemed to be having jolly tim" ito jolly, we thought. for young Sub missionists.
 Sumter said. Let's go down and give those two little Yankees a good whipping" Acting upon that sugges- ton, we approached within easy speaking distance and dared them tn come to us and promised them a good whipping should they comply with our challenge. Now we did not entertain the least animosity for those boys. perhse, but we had inbIbed the spirit of the times and wished to make some display of our own patriotism on the glorious Fourth.
 Ten years rolled around. The seeds of discord, that had been sown long before the birth of the generation who were to reap their fruits. had sprung up and some In full bearing.
 A Northern president had been sleo- ted by the sectional vote of a North arn party, hostile to an institution that had been guaranteed by the "Fathers'' when framing the constitution of the Linton.
 The men of the South descended from patriots of '7a. had no idea of permitting their rights to bN wrested from them without e struggle. They decided to withdraw from that Union peaoiabiy. if they cOuld-forcibly. if they must.
 Alabama and her sister States of the South did withdraw and formed a Southern ConfederacY.
 The president of the North was duly installed in oface. Shortly thereafter.
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I think [ may say that I've had a strenuous week of it.
 "Fust an fo'most" I went to the County Union-the Farmers Union. The major attraction at the meeting is the speeches.
 Whenever we can't have a "Big Ike," we do the best we can and some of the speeches are remarkable physical" e:orts of learning.
 I'm afraid we are introducing too much learning. It's wasting, very off, ten. sweetness on the desert afr"
 The speaker. at the County Union. should be careful to speak plain Eng fish. I have heard some very learned orations at the Union. How do Isknow they are learned? Why, because the speakers use words which can't be found in the dictionary of any known language. If can't find the word in the languages of civilization, I natu- rally conclude that the man who put 1t afioat, Is a learned man.
 The National or State President, or some one with authority, should rule on this matter and allow no one to speak. at our meetings. in an unknown tongue.
 We are going to stand for "cum- pulsory education" just as we ascer- tain that our system of free public school fosters "incidentals" and sup plementais" to such an alarming ex- cent that, in some districts. compul- sorry ignorance seems to be the pur- pose.
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1 perhaps, in all the State, a single Hardsheli Baptist who will vote TOT the Constitutional Amendment. These good people have great conn., dence in the Lord; that He will take care of the heather without botherins them for their hard earned money ("Scarcely saved" from the tax coIlec- tor), but Knowing that Heaven helps only those who try to help themselves" they stand 'iike a stonewali" for civil rights.
 A renaissance, right now. of Hard shellism would save the State from the fanaticism that curses it and threatens 1t with worse.
 1t was a pleasure 10 be with people '.who know their rights and, know ing, dare maintain" All honor to the Hardshell Baprists!
 By the way. they won't tolerate politics in the pulpit" Ameniil
 On Tuesday I came up (to "avoid the rush") to look on the great convens tion of protest against encroachments looked on.
 was glad to note an earnestness that betokens succesE. am afraid the people of the great convention have not properly meas ured the strength of those who are bent on depriving the people of fur ther civil rights.
 regard Governor Conner as the most forcefui man in Alabama poii- ties. His lieutenants, Weakiey and Lawrence, have proven themselves masters and pastmasters. These three men. of course, by their
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heads of Standard oil, in reality the actual head of this great enterprise. and to mark time on every detail of its multitulinous affairs.
 And then MT. Hartman went away to continue his own business fight un- til weakness and his physician's wafn> ing bade him desist or die in harness. His pluck was shown on the day of landing as, just before he went down the gang plank of Kaiser William IL. he gave his hand, a withered, cold hand to a World reporter and said.
 "I ann all right now I am home. I want to get back to Arden and get back the weight I have lost at those baths. They took ten pounds off me-"
 Then he refused aid to walk to the pier, where as told at the time, he nearly collapsed as a result.
 MT. Rogers died of apoplexy after an illness of less than two hours. AS matter of fact, he had sustained a pre- vious stroke of apoplexy and knew that an unusual mental strain might prove fatal to him.
 But he continued at his office every day--was there, in fact. only two days before his death, and he maintained up to the last his place at the helm of Standard oil.
 Similarity in Two Careers.
 There is great similarity in the early struggles of Harriman and Rogers. To one thing they were moved by the same common impulse-they were determin- ed even in the face of medical warning not to give up their place in the busi- ness world or to abate one Jot of the financial grip they had attained to a struggle from extreme proverty in early life.
 MT. Rogers was once asked how he accounted for his great success and he replied:
 By working as hard as anybody ever heard of or read about"
 This was what he did all of his life almost up to the last day of 1t.
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icai process fr removin' tn gilt firm giided youth. first conceived tn ides iv sindin' Dock Cook to tn pole. He wants to call 1t split an deal over f'r 1t.
 "Annyhow if there ar-re going ts be medals distributed rr 1t I'm going to put in a claim. With indomitabla' courage. supported by inadequate food an more inadequate dhrink. I hava pushed through tn thousands fv h- umns that separate us firm our pIeas- ant readin' in tn pa-apers To Ind tn baseball an tn fightin' news. tn do- nestle broil an tn crimes iv me fellow citizens. 1t has been nicissrys fr me to wade through miles on miles w sloppy readin'. pitchers iv scenes In Brooklyn. Copenhagen an Uppernavik. porthraits iv ladin' citizens. tn life iv tn King fv Denmark. copyright no- tices. the histhry iv Sir John Franklin an the life an times iv Elisha Kent Kane. I have glided swiftly over acres iv intherviews with pro-fissors iv geology. sicreties iv artic sciefiea an tn enormous mass iv our popyia- tion. Cooks guides at Mount Mckinley. l have faced tn unknown terrors fv Dock Cooks Enlish an have been peited with the pityless hail iv Peary's wurruked me way slowly through these incredible obstacles have been tortured day an night be tn cease less discussyon iv tn likes iv ye an. Larkin. Now, that I've come to tn end iy me journey ask mesilf Is it worth while Was justified in ma kin all these sacryfices fir science? Annyhow, I'm out f'r tn medals. F'r if I ain't heero in arctic exploration I'm wan iv tn principal sufrrers be 1t an that comes to tn same thing"
 9Th discussion1l go on fir a long time. just tn same." said Mfr. Hem messy. N
 Tt will last till they both coma home an we see thim," said Mir. Dooiy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-19
BY F. P. DuNNE.

men that accompanied him on that thread journey: his life servants, his faithful companyons. who rode over tn frozen seas with him, shot tn mush- OK an tn polar bear with him, divided their last gum dhrop with him. pinted out tn pole to him an give him . certiyncate to take back with himi
 But Dock Cooks indictment of Peary is aven more crushin' Tn malig- nant spirit iv tn man is shown in his reJoindher. He endorses Peary's claiml
 Well. sir, tn lord save mo firm discoverin' anything. If can believe what both these here gin'rous foes says about each other. tn govermint ought to stop thim at Ellis island as undesirable immigrants. Dock Cook says, says he: do not wish to say annything fr publication about me old commandher but if he don't return tn kag iv blubber an tn bag iv gum dhrops he stole firm me but last year I'll go to tn police about it. Did ye notice his watch? make no charges but if he shows an open face silver watch marked with tn initials Dock Cook to show that he's been at tn north pole. let me know. says he.
 Says Peary: I missed a pair iv rubber boots, a scarf pin. two bar'Is iv boneless candles an a bar iv shavin' soap whin come back to Etah. I do not know who stole thim but tn des- cription iv tn man seen lurking around me cabin tallies with a sartain alleged explorer firm Brooklyn"
 "So they're both comin' home where glory waits thim with a club. Tn heroes ar-re returnin' an their claims to immortality is to be sumbitted to a comity iv scientists, who will decide which has tn right to tn gr-reatest immortality as tn wan that said he discovered tn pole an didn't an which gets second money as tn discoverer iv tn pole. I'd divide it. agree with that their imminent pathron iv science tn 1a-ad who in his labrytory at Pam Beach where he was busy with a chem
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man was that you put on me the oth. | CT dayT'
 Fortunately the Lord was with mi. and gave me the right words of an. swer. &
 Said I. My brother, I have been very sorry about that matter. The man Is good man. a good neiRhbor. good citizen, and, if he is not mis- taken in himself. he is man of tow ertng intellect, but, to be candid with you. there are times when he has not good sense."
 If Judge Jones will take this charit- able view of aged pupils. he will no more waste his sweetness on tha desert air'' in his school of manners.
 wanted 10 make some remarks concerning the Convention of Protest against the amendment, but will have to postpone them to more convene tent season"
 It is not amiss. however. to say thas ft is unfortunate to have two ceIebri- ties of the same name in the same convention.
 Perhaps. it is not improper to ob- serve than when q distinguished. eio- Quent speaker Is uncertain of hirnseif about Baal and Balam, that the on. locker reooliected the main characrer associated with B4am and that. per- haps, texcuse me) a whole lot of now shouting people, could stand for that character and that the Balam of Alas bama is still in the saddle.
 The Lord guide and direct the peo- pie to unassing him on the 2gth 0i Novemberl
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, throughout the session and be ready to administer stlmulants if necessary. So the struggle of this little man who had become so great in the nnan- ciai world to keep death at bay while he moved the chessmen of his financial undertakings went on through that summer of 1892. While he steady grew weaker his brain re- mained clear and his will, as adamant as ever.
 And the public knew nothing at all of this struggle. The astute members of the street heard not a whisper that Gould, whose welfare meant millions up or down the scale in Gould stocks, was Ill unto death. He had nervous dyspepsia, that was all, Dr. Mum reg ulated his every physical act. He pro- longed to the last possible moment the physical strength of this disease shat tered man who employed that strength in adding to his enormous fortune. Even as late as October 24 of the year he died, MT. Gould attended the wedding of his son Edwin, who mar ried Miss Sarah c. Shrady, q daugh- ter of pr. George Shrady. He did not actually take to his bed until M two fortune in stocks and bonds estimated at par to be S11O, 100000 and at market value $75,0oo.ooo.
 Fate of Roswell P. Flower.
 Roswell P. Flower, the great bull trader of Wall Street, and one of the prominent figures in this market for years, died of heart fature superin- duced by acute Indigestion at the Long Island Country Club, at Passport, L. l., on May 12 1899.
 But back of the heart failure caused by this particular attack of indigestion was fatty degeneration of the heart which the former Governor knew was l. AaW kSuaa -N n function at almost any time.
 Knowing this he stuck to his desk at the oflce of Roswell P Flower & Co. where the precedent of bulletin-
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against oficial search. Some folks say "ths people will not submit" to every day search of the home.
 My own notion is, that -"the people, have been trained (by their "leaders'') to submit to anything.
 "The people" belong to the church;' they belong to a party.
 Those who ''belong" have too poor an idea of manhood and patriotic cit- izenship to be aroused to the danger that threatens. Their "friends" are to be credited with ali present evil laws.
 David's devotion was expressed in 'though he slay me yet will l trust Him"
 The same spirit is in e people de- luded by treacherous friends" But. l didn't mean to fall into moral izing.
 didn't go back to the County Un> ion" on Saturday. I wasn't we'll. That is the next day normal condition Of the fellow who partakes of dinner on the grounds"
 On Sunday. went up into the Lords country" to the annuel foot washing of my Primitive Baptist brethren.
 For a long time (perhaps since the church which was at Jerusalem") 1t has been the custom of these good people 10 wash their feet. at least. once year.
 These people have suffered ''for con- science sake" and are quick to detect danger to their civil rights and, be 1t said to their credit. there is not.
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New York World.
 .'Worked to death" Is the verdict . given by many of the business ac- ouaintances of Edward H. Hartman, and especially those who were close to him during the plucky fight against death made by the little railroad wiz- ard, during the last few weeks of has life.
 But in his heroic effort against phys 1cai weakness when he knew himSelI doomed. Mir. Hartman travelled no new path, provided no precedent He walk ed merely in the way marked out by Henry H. Rogers one of his closest friends in the business world; by Jay Gould. Roswell P. Flower, and scores of other great hnanciers, whose busy brains piled up vast fortunes only themselves to go down to death while making plans for greater financial triumphs
 Two men great in financial undertak- ings-John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie-appear to have escaped the destiny which marked for death before their time the men who have, at dif- ferent stages. appeared as great unan- cial luminaries in this country Mr. Rockefeller spends most of his time playing golf at one or the other of his country estates, MT. Carnegie fits be- tween New York and Skibo Castle, Scotland. He too takes to golf most kindly and is still hale.
 Not Warned by ROgers's Fate
 MT. Hartman was a doomed man even when he attended the funeral of Mir. Rogers on May IF last. The phys ical breakdown that foretold the end had begun long before that, but, as in the case of MT. Rogers, he ignored his physical condition and continued to keep his finger on the pulse of every one of his vast concerns. He heard of the brave struggle of MT. Rogers to keep his place as one of the
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stickin' out iv tn ice with a sign on 1t an that tn little Eskymo boys cuts their initials on 1t with their little harpoons. Tn Lord give ye sinss suit able to yer'er years"
 That's what ye'er friend Peary thinks said MT. Larkin, "Peary o-ho. A fine wan he Is to be talkin' iv gaI. lant oP Dock Cook an him sayin' he nailed the stars and sthripes to tn Pole an an ensign iv tn Ameri- can navy. which ain't got amy en- signs. How did tn Dock know he was at the North Pole7 He asked That's what he done. He wasn't asham- ed to ask where he was. Suppose ys found ye'ersilf on dark an fogEy night in a place that ye didn't know with no lampposts to tell ye. Wud ys pull out ye'er watch? Wud ye take s peek at the chronomether? Ye wud. but wud a man with annything undhsr his hat worth mentionin'? No sir: he'd wait till somebody come along an' he'd say: What place do ye call thisr An tn man wud say: "Englewood.' An he'd say: Thank ye. will hurrs home an repoort my discovery an write me book! Dock Cook got his information firm expert witnesses on tn spot. This Is tn big nail.' says they. Aground which tn arth rotates in a fraction less thin twinty-fou hours. on account iy which we have to add day to tn year livery four years.' f'r tn Dock reports that they are q very larned people. How dye know tt is?' says tn Dock. Because we live here." says tn Eskymo with light laugh. So tn Dock makes note iv 1t on his cuff an comes home"
 He niver was farther north thin tn throlley barns," said MT. Hennessy 'Th' Eskymos told Loot Peary that Dock Cook spint all his time in hts shirt sleeves in a hammock in wan iv their suburbs"
 "Th' Eskymos ar-re tn gr-reatest liars in tn wurruld,' said Mir. Larkin 'Ye can't believe wurrud they say Besides they niver. said annything iy'
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years old-two years older than MT Hartman. s-
 Gould. like Hartman, was a man of small stature and like him, too. he possessed an indomitable will. could also was born to poverty, the son of Delaware (N. Y.,) County farmer. His early life of poverty, his fights for control. first of the tannery in which he was tnterested-a fight with rifles and revolvers-and his battles in Erie stocks In which Daniel Drew figured as his partner, and Commodore Van- derrbilt, his foe, as well as his later battles when he became one of the foremost of railroad owners and imam cial figures of this country. are mat ters of history. But these battles did not compare with the stern fight he made In the last year of his life against the grim foe. consumption--a fight in which he knew ne was to be the loser, but with rare courage con- cealed even from his closest friends.
 When he knew himself doomed, Gould began fight for time. He call- ed in pr. Mum. his family physician. to watch over him hourly, and the doctor from that time until after Mir. Gould's death was practically one ot the Gould household.
 Tn the early morning hours Gould wrestIed with the cough that was tearing at his lungs, and then in the afternoon when he had gained posses sion of himself through the doctors ministrations, he would enter his car. riage and be driven to a board meet. ing. There he would remain as long as he could retain complete control oveE his physical weakness. When the dee sire to cough became insupportaAle he would leave for his home.
 Ever Watched by Physician.
 Dr. Mum. in the last year of Mr. Goulds illness, was made a director in the Western Union, to the great sur prise of many, and when Gould at. tended a Western Union Board meeting the doctor was there to watch him
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tn kind. Dock Cook Is goin' to sind s ship up to bring thim bac kto prove ivrything he says-"
 That's like ye," said Mir. Henhessy. 'Ye know they're liars an yet tn on'y way ye can prove ye'er base fabryca- . tion Is to get thim to swear to 1t Peary says that they'd tell amy lie to oblige frind with money. An he's prepared to prove by thim that Dock Cook niver was amy nearer to tn North Polethin Rec Janeeryo, be hivins Ye're frind is fakir."
 He Is. is her. said Mir Larkin 'P'haps yed like to say that same out side.'
 "Hop on there" said My. Dooly "We'll have no rough wurruk here Plaze to raymimber that ye're in a re- spictable saloon, not in the columns of the New York newspaper an thai ye-re gintlemen. not Artic explorers This here discussion has gone Ions enough. I'll settle 1t right here an now. Tn other day, Hinnissy, I told ye that I though both iv these here inthrepid explorers had discovered tn North Pole. I've had to change me mind about it. Afther lookin' over tn testimony iv both gallant souls. study. ing 1t carefully an making all allow. dnces TT typoBrahIcai errors an poetic license. I'm forced to say that tn weight iv ividence goes to show that nayther iv thim was at tn North Pole. It's aisy to figure out. Peary is a man of unblemished chaackter. Ivry. body admits that. He settles Cook He says Cook niver was near. CT the North Pole thin tn stove in an Eskymos home that wal named afther him. On Peary's onsup ported statement am prepared, Hin missy. to say that Cook is an imposter But on tn other hand, Cook says Peary did discover tn north pole. He's hi principal witnes. But Peary sayi Cook is liah. An there ye ar-re.
 T don't want ye two scientists r. to go away with amy hard feelin to'rds each other SO I'll sum up tn
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who inspected the great wholesale and retail houses of Field in Chicago could form q conception of the vast ramihca- tions of his affairs.
 Besides realty holdings of more than e60.000.000. he had factories with hundreds of looms working in almost every country on the habitabIe gIobe. There were factories In England. Scot-- land. Ireland, France, Spain. Germany Italy, India, Japan, China and Austra- lia. And upon all of his affairs--Mar- shall Field. who bragged that he never went in debt. never borrowed money and never gave a note-kept his guid- ing hand until the attack of pneumonia week before his death. Like tho others. death alone could compel him Co give up work.
 Even Russell Sage. who had retired from active business for year before his death at his country home at Law renee Beach. L. l., on July 2s, 1906. stiii kept his mind active and his daily habit was to watch the stock market and to give advice regarding the loans to be made. During the last year of his life he attended board meetings of the companies in which he was inter- ested.
 Havemeyer Busy to the End. Henry o. Havemeyer, the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, who died on December {. 1907. at the age of 60, was supposed to be one of the most robust of men. He was said to take plenty of out-door exercise. But MT. Havemeyer kept his finger on the pulse of the Sugar Trust up to the last. He was worth $75,0o0.000, gained in a battle that had meant sweeping out of his path every competitor that could be reached.
 Like many other rich men. Mir. Have- meyers illness was for only Few days. He passed away as an auto was being raced in search of oxygen to con- tinue the fight for his life.
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1 ing the market prices of the next day was established.
 Flowers life was hardly less stren- uous than that of Mir. Hartman. Born in Jefferson County. N. Y.. Mir. Flower lost his father when he was years old, and had to run errands to aid in stocking the family larder. He after ward worked in a brick yard. an then clerk in a store. but despite his labor found time to study, and at IS he had graduated from the Theresa (N. Y.) High School.
 in keeping a small store and finally in his later successes in New York, both politically and financially, have been told. but the battle that he made during the final months of his life to keep his place in the business world. while suffering from ever increasing attacks of heart trouble, has hardly been touched upon. ~.
 For an entire year. 1t is said. Mir. Flower knew that death might any hour be his portion. He had been told of the fatty degeneration of the heart and that valvular trouble might ensuo.
 Yet only short time before his death he said in an interview regard ing Mir. Carnegie's statement that to die rich was to die disgraced.
 "I am not rich and do not intend to die just yet"
 MT. Flower died with a reputed for tune of $7000.00o, but his control of properties at the time of his death extended into the hundreds of millions and he was said then to be preparing for other financial combinations in which he was a firm and outspoken be- liever.
 Marshall Field Ever Working.
 Marshall Field, who died in the Hol- land House on JanuaSy 16, 1908. at the age of 72, leaving a fortune estimated at $150. 100000. ciung to his place as the head of his great dry goods bus mess up to the very last. Few even