Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 April 1898 — Page 7

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ARMOUR AS A MAN.

A CHARACTER SKETCH OF THE CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE.

His Modest Methods of Helping His Fellow Men-Make* Use of HJs Money While In the Flesh—Some of HJs Business Enterprises.

[Special Correspondence.)

CHICAGO, April 19.—Chicago makes one boast for her self made men. It is that they stand by Chicago.

New York is woefully lacking in public spirited millionaires. Chicago's millionaires are few compared with those in the Empire City, bat most of the millionaires of Chicago have erected monuments to their names in substantial, useful institutions, while the New York millionaire very seldom does any great publio work. It is the public spirit of Chioago's millionaires that has helped to build up the Chicago university, established the Field museum and opened the Armour institute, and it made the World's fair a possibility.

Philip D. Armour is one of the foremost men of Chicago in publio works. Mr. Armour made his millions in Chioago. He started in life as a poor boy, and he is today reckoned the riohest man in this city if not in the whole west. His fortune is estimated at $25, 000,000 and sums ranging above that figure. Probably, like most millionaires, he would be able to make only a very poor estimate of the extent of hia wealth.

Mr. Armour's ohief publio benefaotion is the Armour institute. Mr. Armour established a mission on the oor-

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ner of Armour avenue and Thirty-third street a good many years ago. Six years ago he began the ereotion of a five story building opposite the mission, and in December, 1892, he started for Europe on a trip for his health, leaving for publication after his departure the news that he was to endow a great educational institute with over |2,000,000 and to give to it the building he had ereoted. The building was worth $400,000. Its equipment with the very latest scientific apparatus and machinery oost as much more. Out of the endowment provided it has an income of $50,000 a year, while the mission opposite has one-half that sum.

The control of the institute and the mission Mr. Armour vested in a board of trustees of wbich his two sons, Ogden and Philip, are members, and the aotive management he has left entirely in their hands. The Armour institute has sinoe taken its plaoe with the Pratt institute of Brooklyn aud theDrexel institute of Philadelphia.

It was charaoteristio of Mr. Armour that ho should have matured his plans without taking the publio into bis confidence and tbat ho should have left the country to avoid the "hurrah" that was made loonlly over his benefaction. Mr. Armour lias that unostentatious way of doing small as well as large works of charity. One of bis favorite ways of doing good is to toll a man who is burd up and looking a bit seedy to go to a tailor aud get a suit of olothing at his oxpenso. He believes tbat a well dresBed man will have more self respeot than one who is shabby and tbat he will command more respeot from others.

Stories of Liberality.

A great many stories are told of the way Mr. Armour has of scattering money right and loft to the needy. Most of them of course are gross exaggerations. In the first place, a millionaire who gave freely to individuals would be in* juring rather than benefiting his fellow men. In the second plaoe, be would not be a millionaire long. Mr. Armoar is generous, but he has discretion.

If Mr. Armour answered without inquiry every letter or personal request for money which he receives, it would take almost all his income. The stories about his generosity which are published from time to time always bring an increase in the number of begging letters he receives. Russell Sage told me onoe tbat the mere publication of a story telling how many millions he was worth brought him appeals from every part of the civilized world and their total was in the thousands. Of begging letters Mr. Armour naturally receives a great many, but he sees very few at them, because it is no more possible that he ahoolu handle the whole of his enormous mail than that the president of the United States should see every letter that comes to the White House. These demands or appeals from strangers, moreover, are not the kind that go to Mr. Armour's heart. He is much more likely to give a dollar to a ragged newsboy or buy him an overcoat than to hand out $5 cents to an ablebodied beggar who might be earning a living.

Mr. Armour doesn't believe in wait* log until be dies before administering on his fortune. In other words, he is looking after the distribution of his wealth while alive rather than leave it to the uncertainty of administrator*. Aa an evidence of this bis sons practically have half of his fortune now. They did sot corns into this fortune suddenly, but it has be«n gradually handed down to thorn from time to time sinoe they were 15 years of ago. He has pursued the •sme policy in regard to his busineaa—

gradually placing responsibilities upon the shoulders of his sons until they are now full fledged partners. And it is this very manner of treating his boys that has had a good deal to do in making them the practical business men tbey are today.

In the matter of charity you can easily see the same practical line running through all his benevolence. What many others do at death he is doing in life, while be has an opportunity to not only guide and direot affairs, but also to see the fruits thereof. Philip D. Armour did not have any one |o teach him to be a business man, yet lh» credits bis success in life to the influence of his home. He was born on a farm in Madison county, N. Y., in a little building which is still standing ancl which he visited some years ago because he was curious to see the room in which he had slept as a boy.

These things about bis sons and about his early life Mr. Armour told me in a brief interview I had with him in his office a few days ago.

Mr. Armour'B office is one of the biggest in Chicago. It is out up by railings and half partitions, but the only real privacy to be had there is in Mr. Armour's private "den." In the big offioe 250 clerks are busily working from 8 o'clock in the morning until 6 at night. There are no drones there, and Mr. Armour seti them the example of labor, for be is at his desk before any of them, and he seldom goes away before 5 or 6 o'clock.

Gigsntio Interests.

In this office are represented all the vast Armour interests. How great thebe interests are some figures will tell. In his factories Mr. Armour employs 12,000 persons, so it is safe to say that 50,000 persons depend on him for a living. His salary list amounts to $7,000,000 yearly. He owns 9,000 railway cars, in which bis produot is transported to market. He has large steam railway interests. He owns street railways in Kansas City. He owns more grain elevators than any other person in the world. It is his interest in these elevators, by the way, whioh has got him into the wheat market. Like most elevator owners, he has to trade in wheat so as to bring it to Chicago, where it oan earn carrying charges for him. Buying the oash wheat, he sells it for future delivery at a difference amounting to these carrying oharges and then puts it in his elevators.

Mr. Armour's manufacturing interests are not only enormous, but varied. He owns besides his packing houses and dressed beef establishments here and in the west a beef extraot plant, an oleo margarine factory, a big glue plant, a soap factory, a ourled hair plant, an ammonia plant, a hair felt plant, a fertilizer plant and, last but not least, one of the most complete printing plants in the country, in which he does all the advertising and printing of labels for all his various establishments.

Every one of these interests Mr. Ar^ mour has under the control of a competent man who draws a large salary, Mr. Armour believes tbat a cheap man is a poor investment. He pays his heads of departments $10,000, $15,000 and in some oases $25,000 each. They earn their salaries or he would not keep them in his employ. These men are accessible to any one having legitimate business with them. Mr. Armour is not so easy to see, because usually he oan refer his visitors to one of the department heads, and Mr. Armour does not interfere with their conduot of his business.

Early Influences.

Mr. Armour is a big man, stout, with rosy face, smooth exoept for a pair of light yellow English side whiskers. He talks easily and quickly, has his wits always about him and knows his own mind very thoroughly. "I made a little money in California," he said, "and gained some experience, but I should probably have been putting in my time to some better advantage iu the east When I left California, I returned to my old home in New York, but soon afterward I oame west to Milwaukee and after a few years' experience there moved to Chicago. My business has developed gradually sinoe. There is not much romance in my life, you see."

Mr. Armour's habits have always been very simple and still stick to him. Five o'clock in the morning almost always sees him out of bed, and 9 at night is more than likely to find him

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abed. He always reaches his offioe at 7 o'clock or earlier. These hours have preserved his health wonderfully, and except for an attack of rheumatism which took him abroad eight or nine yean ago he has suffered no serious illness in the last 20 years.

Mr. Armour has always found his home the most attractive place, and he seldom spends an evening anywhere else. He does not care for entertainments, and so he entertains very little. His sons, whose fine homes stand side hy side cm Michigan avenue, have given a little more attention to society than their father, but they, too, are domestic in their tastes. In these boys and their suocess in life has always been the greatest share of Mr. Armour's interest, and he told me that life would have had very little happiness for him if his tons had not grown tap to be splendid, manly fellows and good business men. .... GBOBGE GBJLXTHA* BAR.

Primitive Marriage.

Marriage in primitive times was no family or personal arrangement but an institution of the community. If we realize this, many hitherto unexplained customs connected with it become at once of significance. The members of primitive communities were bound to gether by common interests and duties every member of a clan was bound to consider the rights of his fellow and to assist him even to his own hurt. Aid and succor were indispensable for com munal necessities, therefore the mar riage of a son or a daughter in every small commonwealth was a matter for pnblic consideration. The first step that led to matrimony in those remote times was to capture a wife or to purchase a wife. In this the whole tribe assisted and then joined as of right in-fhe festivities that gradually grew round the marriage ceremony. In short, in those days the individual was ignored and had no existence save as one of a group.

Surely we may consider that this led to the necessity for the lord of the manors sanction to his tenants' marriage in feudal times, the lords of the manor in the middle ages having appropriated to themselves many of the rights of the tribal authorities of primitive times. In feudal times no girl could be married to any one out of the manor without the good will of the lord of the soil, and an heiress oould not be married at all with out his consent. In some instances fines had to be paid by the bride's father, or whoever stood to her in the plaoe of a father, for leave to give her in marriage to a stranger.—Philadelphia Ledger.

''Coffee as a Medicine.

Sfgs That Don't Hatch.

I have been experimenting lately on the eggs from certain hens to find out if there is any great difference in the way they hatoh, their vitality, etc., and have been greatly interested in t&e discoveries. The eggs from the abnormally fat hens seldom hatoh. The ohioken usually dies on or about the twelfth day of incubation. When an egg hatohts a day or two in advance of time, one usually concludes that it was quite fresh when put in, but I now find tbat it is the eggs from the active and most healthy hens that break the shell first.

Five eggs from a little game hen, whioh were all over 5 days old, were the first to hatoh. Invariably the egg from the sleepy, lazy hen hatches late. Out of 27 hens whose eggs I experimented with I found two quite sterile. They both lay fine, large eggs of good shape and shell, but, though I must have tried quite a dozen of their eggs, not one has ever had a sign of a chicken. I have even mated them with different roosters, but without avail, and, strange to say, they are the worst tempered hens in the yard, always quarrelling and beating the others.—Fanciers'

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It is said that the first use of coffee by man was made by the prior of a convent He was told by a goatherd of the exciting effeots of the berries when eaten by his goats, so he thought he would try them and see if he oould not keep his monks awake during what should have been their vigils. He succeeded admirably and brought coffee into the way of earning its worldwide reputation. The most active principle of coffee is caffein. It.contains also oertain oils, wbich no doubt have a share in its action. Many years ago a claim was made that green, or unroasted, berries had a great value in liver and kidney trou bles.*'

One etfthusiast preffcrri niixttire of two parts Mooha and one part Marti nique and Isle de Bourbon coffee. He puts about three drams of this in a tumbler of cold water and lets tbem strain and infuse overnight. The next morning, after straining, the infusion is taken on an empty stomaoh the first thing after getting up. This medical authority cites many cases of kidney and liver colics, diabetes, nervous headaches, etc., which, though rebellious in all other treatment for years, soon yielded to the green coffee infusion. The remedy is a very simple one and well worthy of a trial. Another use of coffee medicinally is in nausea and retohing. For that purpose a strong infusion is made of the berries whioh have been ground and roasted, and it is sipped while very hot.—New York Ledger.

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Nothing Like Praise.

Jack—I'll tell you what's the matter, George you don't praise your wife enough. Even if things don't go right there's no use growling. Praise her efforts to please whether they are successful or not Women like praise, and lots of it

George—-All right I'll remember it. George (at dinner, same day)—My dear, this steak pie is just lovely. It is delicious—ever so much better than those my mother used to make. She oouldn't equal that pie if she tried for a month. .George's Wife—You made fun of every pie I ever made, and now—

George—But this is lovely. George's Wife—That came, from the baker's.—Strand Magazine.

-i'-P-d Milk Spoil* the fMta, If tea or coffee be good, the addition of milk spoils the taste. Coffee and milk and tea and milk are difficult to digest Pure cream is leas objectionable, because pure cream is really butter or grease and contains very little of the albuminous part of the milk.

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Watting.

Hicka—See that fool jump on the train before it stops. It makes one so mad!

Wicks—EPm, what d'ye think of me? I've watched that fellow do that for nearly a year, aud be hasn't got killed yet.—Boston Transcript.

Britain was known to the Phoenician* aa Barat-Aaac, or "the land of tin," aa far hack as the year 103? B. G. Soam 500 years afterward the island was alluded to by the Romans under the name of Britannia, which subsequently became shortened into Britain.

Not »ckle.

The saying, "Fickle as a weathercock," once received a striking refuta tion in the experience of Dr. W. E Channing. The famous Boston divine being of a feeble constitution, was led to go to extremes in protecting himself against the cold, penetrating air of the winter in Boston. At such times noth ing would induce him to go out of the house, even in a carriage, if the wind was from the east.

A friend, not having heard from Dr Channing for three weeks, notwithstand ing tbat the weather had been unusual ly mild and agreeable, feared that he might be ill and called at his house to inquire. He found Chacning in his library, the sun streaming through the closed windows, and a blazing fire in the grate. The room was almost suffo eating. Th*» doctor himself seemed in his usual health and spirits. Naturally the visitor asked why he was not enjoy ing the soft air and sunshine. Channing shook his head and said: "Impossible my friend. I dare not, and you know I never do, venture out of doors in an east wind." "But the wind haB been south for the last three weeks," urged his friend. "You are greatly mistaken," rejoin ed the doctor. "Look at the weather vane," and he pointed triumphantly to the weathercock of a neigh tiring ohurch "But that vane has not moved for the last three weeks. It wants oiling," was the response

The good doctor had been kept a pris oner for three weeks by a rusty weathercock.—Youth's Companion.

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Not So Green.

The up town bound cable car appar ently was in the hands of a green motorman. At least that was the way the crowd of pnssengers accepted it when, after each stop, it started up again with a violent jerk, which threw big men around like skittles. Straps were of no value. flj

At Prince street a little old man get on and made his way to about the middle of the car. He lost something of his mildness of expression when he was thrown suddenly and forcibly against a young woman, knocking off her hat, but be said nothing. Next a big man made a parabolio swing, landed and nearly knocked him through the window. Then the face of the little man grew very red. He pushed his way to the front door and, shaking his finger in the motorman's surly visage, threat ened to throw him off the car and run the thing himself. The motorman "sassed" back, but the excited little passenger talked fast and dared him to do it again. Then he shut the door and waited, and every one held his breath when the bell rang.

But the fight did not come off. The oar started as gently as molasses, and never once from Prince street, where that one little man stood on his rights, up to Fiftietn street did the car start in any but the smoothest way.

That motorman was not so green.— New York Sun. PS

In China.

From the diary of three Englishmen in Yunnanese China: Eggs were brought to us. They were hard and black and had strong smells. "These are rotten 1" we exclaimed. "Oh, no," we were told, 'they have simply been buried underground for a year 1 It is true eggs go bad, but if they remain long enough underground they get all right again." We gave the eggs baok, with the observation: "They will probably be excellent in the fullness of time, but they haven't been long enough in the ground. Go and bury them deep—as deep as you can."—North China Herald.

imagination Care.

Fuddy—Spleeney appears to be much improved health lately. Duddy—Yes, I cured him. I got him on to a scale the other day, and without his knowing it I managed to slip a 20 pound weight on the platform. When he saw how much he had gained, he began to be cured. In less than two days he was as W6ll as ever he was.

Boston Transcript.

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married couple who are crown rood health are really a king anc

enables them to withstand all the hardship* and misfortunes of life. Accidents aside. lives of mutuaj be blessed with

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together in the twilight of old age and look back without regret over a mutually happy, helpful, useful, successful companionship. ere are thousands of young couplet every day who start wedded life with bul one drawback.—one or the other or both, suffer from ill-health. There can oe no true wedded happiness that is overshadowed by the black cloud of physical suffering. The man who contemplates matrimony, and realizes that through overwork or worry 01 neglect, he is suffering from ill-health, should take the proper steps to remedy it before he assumes the responsibilities of husband. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the best of an medicines for men who have neglected their health. It makes the appetite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active, and the blood pare and rich with life-giving elements. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It invigorates and gives virility, strength and vigor.

No woman should wed while she suffers from weakness and disease in a womanly way. These are the most disastrous of disorders from which a woman can snfier. They break down her general health. The* unfit her for wifehood and mothertoood. Tbev make her a weak, sickly, nervous invalid. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures all weakness and disease of the delicate and important organs that bear the burdens of wifehood and motherhood. It transforms weak, suffering, fretful invalids into healthy, happy wives and mothers. Both medicines are sold at all good medicine

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Blood Poisoned.

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Mis. E. Browning, of Pueblo, Painfully Afflicted from a Complication of Diseases—Her Remarkable Fortitude.

The hurry and bustle of the housewife is extremely wearing upon the delicate organism of womanhood. Her intense earnestness in "whatever she undertakes, tempts her constantly to go beyond her strength.

Read the story of a Colorado woman as told to our reporter: "Eight years ago," •aid she, "my husband died, and I was left with three children to care for and educate. About two years ago

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blood poisoning, caused by an abscess that had not received proper treatment. The disease for a time settled in my throat, causing me intense agony. Then inflammatory rheumatism set in. For four months and a half I was a prisoner in my room, most of the time confined to my bed. My hands were swollen so that I could not feed myself, and the swelling in my feet and ankles would have made walking impossible if

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had been strong enough. "One day, after considerable treatment, my physician brought me a box of pills. •'You need a tonic," he said, "and some* thing that will act at once, and this is the best medicine I know of for that purpose." "Pills," I exclaimed in surprise as he opened the box and showed me the little pink globes. These are Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." "Yes," he replied, "but you need not be alarmed, they are not physic, and my word for it, they'll do you good."

Before I had been taking them a week I noticed a great improvement in my conSoon my rheumatism was gone, I dition. stron each day and now am in the grew stronger best of health.

The lady was Mrs. L. E. Browning, of 115i East 4th St, Pueblo. Colorado.

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consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills fbr Pale People," she continued, "the best tonic I have ever known." "A friend not long ago was telling me of her mother who is at a critical period in her life. She had been sut\ject to terrible feinting spells, and the whole family would work over her. Dr. Williams'Pink Pills have not only stopped the feinting spells, but given her so much strength that she is able to taka up life's duties again. 1

I recommended the pills also to a young lady whose pale face made one pity her. She looked as ir there wasn't a drop of blood in her body. She was so weak that she was not able to attend school, but after taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for awhile she has gone back to school, and, with her rosy cheeks and bright eyes, she looks like an* other gii 1 (Signed) Mas. L. E. BROWNING."

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of May, A. Du 1897. GEOBGE W. GILL, Notary Public.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific fbr such diaeases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes fbr $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr* Willianu'Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

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