Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1898 — Page 3

A PORK PACKEfi KING IZS »f

VIEWS OF NELSON MORRIS ON CHILDREN, BUSINESS AND COMMERCE.

How Be Brings Up His Children—How He Started In Life Trouble With the IODDK Men of Today—Borrowed Capital.

Religion.

[Special Correspondence.]

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—Nelson Morris, the millionaire pork packer, has an odd theory about the government of children. He believes in letting them have money without question and teaching them by example as well as precept not to misuite it. Mr. Morris has done this

of attorney to sign his father's name. In effect, he gave them an equal share with himself in his great fortune. Ho Bays that not one of them has violated the trust and that better boys do not exist. So Mr. Morris has every reason to put faith in his plan.

Another idea of Mr. Morris' is that if the temperate use of wines and liquors is permitted to boys they will not use liquor to excess. Mr. Morris does not drink. Neither do his boys. But, he says, the boys have always had liquor where they couJd get it if they wanted it.

Finally Mr. Morris says that be is the happiest man in the world today because he has a fine wife, dutiful, well behaved children and a fortune acquired by honest work. Certainly there is nothing in his face to indicate unhappiness. No deep lines of care mark his smooth, round cheeks, and as ho sits back in his chair, puffing at his cigar between sentences, he looks as contented as a man would wish to be.

domestic tastes. On his office desk stand photographs of his children and his grandchildren. On the wall, in a long frame, are portraits of Mrs. Morris and other portraits of the children, and in another frame, amid family portraits, is a photograph of Mr. Morris himself, holding a baby on his arm. This photograph Mr. Morris refuses to give up for publication—this or any other. Ho tells mo he does not cafce to "get into print," and it is only on my specious plea that I want to know what my own chances would bo in the business world that he consents to talk to me. "I'm afraid you're too old to enter mercantile life," ho says, studying my 6 feet of height and my full bpnrd. "Now that's a good age to start out." Ho indicates a picturo on the wall—the well known etching, "Breaking Home Ties."

An Early Start In Business.

''About 1 fieri? is a good time to start in business," he says. "I suppose, though, that your father gave you a college education."

Dou' you approve of college training?" I ask. "It is useful in a way. My third son was educated at college. Tbe second was at Exeter for a little vhile. He went into business at 17. My oldest son took my place in the office when he was IS—signed my checks and everything. 1 had headaches from overwork, and I hud to give up my business for a tirno to euro them. My third sou has just gone into the business at 28. He will make a fine business man."

It wan this third son who attracted attention lately by alundoning a literary career for a place in his father's offieo. He had published one book and hud another ayut

ready

Mr. Morris surroundings indicate his jjfe todays what advice would you give me?" "To save a little of what you earned until you had capital to go in business

for publication

when ho decided to go into business. This son :as had for ten years the privilege of signing his father's name to chocks yithout rendering an accounting of the money used. Ho could have continued to lead a life of comparative ease, but the business instinct which made the Morris millicus cropped out in him finally. That business iustiuct i3 appearing in the third generation. Mr. Morris showed me a photograph of one of his grandsons and said: "That young man is not 11 yet, but he comes up here every Saturday and trades. He always has plenty of money in his pocket just as mv sons always had. "I gave my sons plenty of money," Mr. Morris continued, because I wanted them to feel that they were as good as any one else. I wanted them to feel independent, because I believed then that they would be better Americans. I trusted to ths influence of their home to teach them good habits. I believe that a man should make his home a paradise for his family. Then I believe that the father should be a looking glass for his boys in which they will see what is best for them to do. A father should have the confidence of his sons, and he should be their companion. But he should not take his business worries home to them or to bis wite. It is not alone that it is unfair to them, but it is of no use. I have always followed the rule that when I came near my home I put the office away from me. I have always spent my evenings tHth my family, I belong to no clubs. I never have touched a card. I never have gone to horse races. You remember when Dexter was racing. He was at a race track not far from her*, and I never would take a half hour to go to see him. Not that I do not believe in raising fine animals. I would give $6,000 any day for a fine bull or stallion. I believe in progress, but I do not care far herso racing.

Mr. Morris* Start Xa Life.

"I began life when I was 12 years old at $5 a month." said Mr. Morris. "I worked at the stockyards over on tbe lake shure. Tbe mm vrho gave me my first Sob is still in the stockyards, and the man who get the place for me is

now on my pay roll, though I don't let: people concluded that world was hiiu do any work." coming to an end. At (me public school "Wasn't a dollar worth more In that day than it is now*:'* I asked. ••Jt was worth 100 centa," said Mr. Morris. "That is what one i« worth today. But nine wen in ten think no

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with his three sons. He tells me that at must leave whisky and cards alone and caijg drunkenness a grave offense. the age of 18 each of them had power save my money. I

Believes In Promotion.

"Do you watch and encourage the young men in your ofiice?" "There is not a man in my employ that I don't know and know all about. I think that is my duty. I believe in promotion, :-nd I help the young men to save and to start out in business for themselves." "Do you advance them capital?" "No a man does not take enough care of borrowed capital. It is tho money be earns that he will take care of. I have advanced money to some men to help them in business, but I believe in encouraging them to earn their own capital. Another thing, every man in my place is the keeper of his own conscience. You know we have to keep our business going every day in the year. Well, if a young man in my employ has any scruples about working on Sunday I respect them. And I honor him more if he stands by them. A good Roman Catliolio is as good as any other man to me."

Mr. Morris says that since his sons took hold of his business he has not worked so hard. Still he gets up at 5 o'clock every morning, and he is at his place of business by 7. He lives modestly in the bouse which he took two years after his marriage, 35 years ago. His office is plainly furnished. He dresses plainly but neatly in a blue serge suit and a soft hat of black felt. He takes no interest in society and has about as little respect for it as he has for politics, "Commerce," he says, "is the bone and sinew of this great country. It is the commercial man who finds a market for the product of the ranch and farm

manufacturer, man. The hope of the republic is in tbe young men who are being trained for a business life."

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"How lid you fnanage td' live on $5 a montb?" I asked. I "I had no board and lodging to pay.

My boots were furnished to me too. There was a great deal of mud about the yards, and it was very hard on boots. The money to pay for my clothing I earned by working extra at night, keepipg the hogs from piling up. If hogs are left alone, you know, they will get in a heap, and the under ones will be smothered. "In those days any one around the yards could have all the whisky he

ing it I would haul this product eight miles and sell it a 11.50 profit. Everything is much easier now than it was

of 10 cents. There is all the better chance tin that the tenth man will get some of the dollars they spend." "But big institutions like your own have monopolized the trade and shut small dealers out, have they not?" "Don't you believe it. I would be willing to start in today without a dollar in the world and take my chances with the rest, and I am 58 years old. Young men are starting in business all the time and succeeding, it' any of them fail, it is because they arc not fitted for commercial life or because they do not follow right principles.

"If I were making a start in business

for yourself to get as near to other men

as possible, because you have to deal with them, and to be straightforward. A young man who will start in that way will succeed if he has a taste for mercantile business. The chances are better now than they were in my day, I think, because today there are more people in the world to do business with. When a young man has started out for himself, he should bo careful of the little things." "Would you advise a young man to go west and grow up with the country?" "What should he grow up with—the cactus and the sagebrush? No. I would rather go to London than into our western country to go into any business. If a man wants to be a farmer, the west is all right, but if he wants to trade he should go whera the people aro and where the money is. Another reason there is abetter chance for a young man now is because the men who have made fortunes in business, as a rule, are not educating their sons to succeed them. Some of them are. Armour has raised some good boys. So has Swift and so have I. But in London particularly the men who are managing great business houses are not tbe sons of men who founded them. The father has a manager to look al'ter the business and tho son is being brought up to a profession or to wait for his inheritance. The trouble with the young men of today is that the mothers want too many of them to be doctors and lawyers."

aud of the manufacturer, who hires the ships to transport them and keeps the versity and college life, especially in the railroad trains running. The future of east, is drunkenness.

America is not with the fanner or the faculty of Princeton think the subject but with tbe commercial so much in need of attention as to close

GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN.

A Hot fin* la Adelaide.

There was a hot time in Adelaide, Australia, ou Nov. 10, the temperature in tbe shado reaching 106 degrees aud in the sun 164 degrees. The si looked queer. ih« sun was blood rri, and many

the children were seized with a panic, which was stopped with difficulty 'by the bead master, who later kept the whole school in till it had made up the feme lost in tbe scare.

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THIRSTY STUDENTS.

MISS FRANCES WILLARD ON DRINK AT COLLEGES.

The Closing of Princeton Inn as an Example—A Haw That Proposes to Forbid the Sale of Liquor Near Any College

Campus—Vale and Columbia.

[Special Correspondence.]

CHICAGO, Feb. I.—The closing of the Princeton inn is a more important act and more significant to the bibulous pcr-

tion of the whole brotherhood of college

wanted and there was a great deal of gtudents than many suppose. Other col- pleasure to Sir Henry to chat with any drinking and card playing. I saw it, ieges

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but I made up my mind that if I was I pa^ into force that existent but long going to make anything of myself I

hard work then. I would buy^a dead earnest—of courso co-operative with hog for $1 sometimes, and after render-!

other

then." "Do you think there are the same opportunities now that there were?" "They are better now. One reason is because nine men in ten, as I said to' you, think less of a dollar than we did

In the east it seems to be the custom for college men to belittle the student who is a teetotaler and who studies hardest, and to crown with laurels the one who skips recitations and drinks the most. This false idea, however, will take wings in the east just as it has in tbe south and west. Not long ago a student of the Leland Stanford university Baid to me: "Ob, yes, we have some fellows who get drunk, worthless idiots! But mo&t of us prefer to study.''

I am personally acquainted with many members of the faculty in various colleges, and it cannot be said that either they or their colleagues knowingly permit excessive drinking among the students. But it sometimes looks as if the faculties of our many old fashioned oolleges are wholly unaware of the formidable amount of intoxication existing within a stone's throw of their recitation halls.

It would be well to create teaohers' places for a certain number of postgrad nates from each college and let the young men occupying such positions live in close touch with the students. These postgraduates would know exactly where and when to warn students of temptation. They would, moreover, gain the confidence of the "boys" where a head older and wiser, but not sm familiar with tbe life of the students outside the classrooms, would fail.

I have been asked if I shall personally give any time and attention to this evil of intemperance^ in colleges. I answer yes! And not a little of m* time either, but a great deal.

Today the greatest blight on our uni-

TETIRE HAUTK SATUKDAY EVENING MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1898.

follow'Princeton's example

neglected

article of discipline which

We are so

"When I was 18^ years old, I had action of the Princeton faculty that the started out for myself. It was pretty

encouraged by the decisive

XT. has taken up tbe work in

temperance societies. We hope

and inns may be removed from the vi cinity of each and every college campus. Indeed we advocate the "four roile law," making it illegal to serve intoxicants within that distance of any educational institution. Our local branch in each college town has already been asked to put forth every effort toward this end. At one or two universities parents of students are already appealing to the trustees to put every possible barrier between their sous and strong drink. The trustees, in their turn, are demanding that the faculty make suspension or expulsion for drunkenness.'

that by legislative action saloons, cafes considered remote enough from-London

the punishment

I have been asking myself, my comrades and others, why cannot the colleges of tbe east follow the example set by those of the south and west—that is, to prohibit by law wherever practicable the sale of intoxicating liquors within four miles of the college buildings? Of course in the case of universities like Yale and Columbia, each situated in the heart of a city, some exception would probably be made by the legislatures, although, as a matter of course,

should make none. Meanwhile there

are no saloons in Cambridge, and students conversant with the situation tell me that there is less drinking and fewer cases of intoxication in Harvard than in other universities of the east. In Princeton, since the closing of the inn. I have been informed that students are giving more attention to studies than to drink. In New Hayen, however, Yale is surrounded by all sorts of temptations to

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drink, there bffing 02 saloons aud cafes within a few blocks f? the buildings. We shall very naturally put forth our most earnest efforts in New Haven, where by means of local option the citizens muy in time vote away the legalization of tbe liquor traffic

the trustees and

the principal drinking place in the town, surely it is a matter that needs the immediate co-operation of all fathers and mothers who have sons at college.

I am aware that the first words uttered by r::any a young man returning from cci

l*ae

are, "Let's have a drink!"

Those word -, learned in college and cons Ing from tbe lips as often and as easily as "How do yon do?" form the keynote of the young man's career.

It is in the hope of making less frequent the utterance of these words, "Let's have a drink J" that I may be said to have devoted my life. The fight for a clear brain is sure to win since science and the home are with us.

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Sir Henry Doalton.

Sir He-ory Doulton, who was born in Vauxhall Walk in 1820, practically spent his life in Lambeth, where his father established his pottery in the year of Waterloo, and he took an active part in the business from the old days of "chimney pots, drain pipes, ink and blacking bottles" until the firm became world famous for its art productions, in which, above all else, may be mentioned its admirable ware based upon the old Gris de Flandres and other types of old Flemish and German stoneware, whose soft, tender colorings are so restful and refined. It was always a

one who was interested in old London —the London when Vauxhall was virtually in the country when Vauxhail gardens, with their "10,000 extra lights," were the resort of the Joe Sedleys and the bucks of a generation later when the now densely populated suburb of Battersea was given up to market gardens and meadows and was

to be the scene of a duel between the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchelsea in 1829.

Sir Henry Doulton first made a name in 1851, when he practically revolutionized sanitary matters by introducing stoneware drain pipes, and he went on accumulating honors and medals and in 1870 turned his attention to art pottery with equal success. As a man he was cultured, kindly, devoted to literature and art, and most charitable and sympathetic, and he will be immensely missed and mourned in the great facto-

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larger world outside, in

which he was so widely known and universally liked. «, -,4s*

Tho Bad Landu.

In its widest scope the arid region of the United States comprises half the territory of the entire country, for to so great an extent must irrigation be employed either as a primary or secondary factor in the cultivation of crops. From about the ninety-sixth to the ninety-ninth meridian there is a strip of about 250 miles in breadth which Major J. W. Powell calls the "sublmmid" tract. Within it there is an annual precipitation sufficient to insure crops, but the precipitation is so disproportionately bestowed and at such irregular intervals throughout the year that the seasons of successful farming are interspersed with long and disastrous droughts. Reliance, therefore, upon moisture directly falling from the clouds is extremely hazardous, and, unsupplemeuted by waters from stream distribution, it is not generally reposed.

But west of the ninety-ninth and east of the one hundred and twenty-first meridian, throughout the whole breadth of the country, from Canada to Mexico, there is a district in which nothing needing moisture greater than that required by the arteiuisia or the cactus can be planted and grown. It is a region aggregating about 1,840,000 square miVs, a territory larger than A«abia, as.^rge as and not,mere arid than the combined areas of Persia and India, with their united populations of 250,000,000 souls. Lippincptt's,,,Mag azine.

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Marriage Ceremonies Among the Caingnag.

The only formality which the swain has to go through to get the hand of his promised one is to kill a tapir, an act bjT which he proves that he will be capable of supporting his prospective family. The death of a tapir under such conditions is quite an event. The whole tribe assembles at the carcass, and a scene of gluttony begins that does not cease till nothing is left but the skin and bonesof the "great beast." That is the only ceremony of marriage. The Caingua is usually monogamous, but polygamy is allowed. Marriages of relatives are carefully avoided. After confinement the young mother has a rest of a few days before resuming her servile task. She carries tbe newborfi infant in a scarf or sort of little hammock slung over her shoulders. She does not think of weaning it for a year and a half or two years, while the child has already been exercised in arms with miniature bows. Ideas of cleanliness seem foreign to tbe women as well as to tbe meii, and it is a lucky chance that will induce them to comb their magnificent heads of hajr.—Dr. Machon in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly.

Sacred 'Fires of India."1

Tne sacred fires of India have not all been extinguished. The most' ancient which still exists was consecrated 12 centuries ago in commemoration of the voyage made by the Parsees when they emigrated from Persia to India. The fire is fed five times every 24 hours with sandal wood and other fragrant materials, combined with very dry fuel. This fire, in the village of Oodwada, near Bulsar, is visited by Parsees in' large numbers during the months allotted to the presiding genius of fire.—Exchange.

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Mrs. Bright—Why, dear, how do yon know such is the case? Mr. Bright—Only a married man could have penned this item, "Ther will be no change in pocketbooks this season."—Chicago Neva

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