Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-17

or pier. Some months ago he was al
most swept away by an unexpecte ed
rush of water against new works,
from which peril he was pulled in the
nick of time by devoted foreman,
A young man of great strength and
, activity went to death with that flood.
You may be sure the Old King took
care of the mans family, for such
was ever his big hearted way. He
ever loved manual workers, especially
his own hardy rivermen, who revered
him and boasted him endlessly. AS
for his son, his partners, his business
TRUSTEES" the "Old Man seemed re-
garded by them as a tremendous.
beneflcent, irrepressible Force of
Nature or God, always right, and as
such to be implicitly obeyed.
Boothlike Captains of Industry.
Well, last Friday, while superntend-
ing the removal of ruins from one of
his mills, which fire had been so re-
bellieus as to burn some months ago,
the king, (of eighty-eight years, mind
You), was not quite smart enough on
his veteran pins to get out of the
way of some falling timbers. These
knocked him senseless and broke enc
of his legs On swiftly recovering
consciousness, he remarked, Boys,
yon'd better be careful of this leg
it pains some" Soon afterward, look
ing round on his mournful men, he
said: well boys, this is the last time
| expect to see you again, which
some may think quite as heroic as the
words of Aehutius Elva, on reVlVlhs
at Lake Regillus: Friends, how goes
the fight" They carried the KING
home. Is he about to stop work IN
this vale?-for ii is inconcevable that
he won't soon get busy elsewhere. NOT
n bit of il. Bulletins from his bedside
report him doing we'll. temperature
good. broken bone seeming inclined Il
knit. That it may long carry nm
about ottawa is the public wish.
What useful, active, joyous III
has his beenl Always in contact with
materials, real values,
stroae men, Never depending on
tariffs, governmental favors, any kina
of privilege. Ever producing a real,
tangible, valuable, undenable dol
lars worth for his pouched dollar
The central brain of an enormous 0rz
tNtiS
getting his just share, and well un-
that the Old Man wa
thinking fer all hands, even saving lei,
them. He was never luxurious nor
an ostentatious wastrel. wherefore
all he accumulated was employed pro-
ductiyelv on commodities of general
Such a Captain of Indus
trv might harmlessly, nay adVanta-
geoislV. possess all the capital IN the
world. if he could employ it as pro-
ductiVely in an economic sense, as an
its present passeSSors do. For, were
il all in one pair of Boothiike hanas,
there would be but one man tempted
to lavish on a luxurious family What
should be conserved for production
solely. The true cause of poverty IN
general is mainly the diversions or
la bor from production of general utill-
ties by wasting capital in reatine
pomps, luxuries, vanities, ostentatiohs'
,rbe more rich. wasteful families the
more poor people-surely that must
be clear to anyone who slhcereiS re
fleets on the matter. The more eapi-
talists like J. r. Booth, the more pen
eft all around, since he and his IKE
have brains and desired To employ al
accumuations in producing general
needments. Not the dissemination OF
capital in equal portions should be
the aim of legislators, reformers OF
radicals, but the taxation of luxury,
pomp. vanity so ruthlessly as to
abolish that unholy thought generally
trinity. But this Is only
a radical tub! Better some
more sympathetic laudation OF the
Roothlike life.-Boston Transcript