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= ‘THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ~ : —_- 21 A i like the small package of Pearline,” a lady says; “it lasts two weeks and does two washings.” Then she admits that she has been using soap with her Pearline. Now this is all unnecessary. If you don’t put in enough Pearl- ine to do the work easily and alone, you _brin Pearline down to the level of soap, whic! means hard work and rubbing. enough Pearline, the soap is a needless expense, to say the least. Use Pearline alone, just as directed, If you use and you'll have the most thoroughly economical washing. Beware you an imitation, be honest—send it back, Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell “this is as good as” or ee FALSE—Pearline is never peddled; it ir sends 05 Pa ids PYLE Ree Soe irs POSSE Heres S*seetonsonondendoniontenseesoesoetoesessocteongoasontoatnetoeteesosseetontedtodsedantieetedtoctortoscodtetine tied UNYAD! JANOS, The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water. 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation all Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature of the firm “Andreas Saxlehner,’’ On the Label. I! RATHER BE A “DORKIE BIRD.” Thrilling Experience of a Young Lady Who Went to Church. From the Ch 0 News. the fine singers Jo not always sive ar enunciation to words which is ry if they would have a listener unacquainted with the text discover the sentiment contained therein. La ning, at one of the large Presby- terian churches on the South Side, a spe- ciaily attractive service was held. It had been widely advertised and every seat was filled. In one of the forward pews sat a young person who eagerly waited for pro- Ceedings to commence. opening number on The Wasa courts rather the program voluntary beginning: “A day in Thy I had of is better than a thousand. be a doorkeeper in the house 1 than to dwell in the tents of w! But the young person had#t and she didn’t know. .s beautiful voice may ring out strong, and the young person her ears to catch the words. At ey eluded her exaspcratingly, but » and close attention she finally ituation. The singer con- in the courts of the Lord to @ thousand spent elsewhere. good. Jtut the next sentence the young person. ‘he singer forth that she had rather be a in the house of her God than n elevated position in a less place. young person pondered. Since her infancy she had been fed on verses rs from the Bible, but somehow seem to remember any refer- early In’ a ‘“dorkie bird.” She must be en in word, she thought, and ttled herself to iisten to the tenor, who the sweet melody. the words plainly. »w warblin he would s t no, the di n Was as before— ‘dorkic ird. The contralto and bass made no change fn the version, but sang it as the soprano and tenor had done. & person's rind was perturbed. \] not fix her thoughts on the rer which follo 1, but bowed her head lated on is biblical com- all the t but if surely there must She wondered if it were sparrow. member of the fe a thing. like an umber she What is a ed softly. her a pair of interested rhe asked again. mind,” she whispered, nerv- nothing. They are going to exclusion of al bird occupt 1 else that idea of her attention dur- When she rushed to her room her Bible. After an arduous Bea > found the place and read: “A day in Thy courts is better than a thous- end. I had rather be a doorkeeper—” “Doorkeeper! Oh!” she sald faintly, and Bat Cewn on the edge of the bed. —————+e+ Changes in Coe From Household Words. It is curious to note the entire change that has come over the dialect of Lon- don. The so-called “Cockney” idiom is al- st a thing of the past. The following @ialogue current in the early part of the ceniury was often quoted as illustrative of the Londoner's way of talking: “Villlam, bring me my vig.” “Vich vig?” “Vy, the vig I vore last veek at Vestminster.” Yet, at this present day, one never hears the “Vv" substituted for the “w,”’ or vice versa, and the rather rich, drawling accent of the ancient “Cockney” is replaced by a sharp, sibilant, whining mode of speech. Nor is the reason of the change far to seek. The native of Essex, and of parts of Suffolk, has always been noted for the “whine” and for a certain harshness of speech, and the Zast End of London has largely been peo- pled from those adjacent regions, and be- ing. on the whole, a more pushing, ener- getic race than the softer-speaking south- ern men, their dialect has conquerad the other, and driven it out of town. ney Dialect. SHAM JEWELRY. Artificial Gems Produced So Perfectly as to Defy Close Inspection. From the New York Journal. “Sham Jewelry is generally supposed to be of little value, and to be worn only by people who cannot afford the genuine arti- cle,” remarked an expect in such: matters. the other day. “The fact is, though, that some ornaments in which artificial gems are set are very valuable, frequently cost- ing several hundred dollars, “Then, too, you would be surprised to know how many wealthy people wear these artificial gems without its ever being sus- pected that they are false. Some of them do this because there is less menial dis- tress tc be endured if any of them are lost, and others are in such fear of thieves that they keep thelr real jewels in some safe Geposit vault and wear only artificial orma. ments, which they have made to exactly duplicate the costly bits of jewelry that they are known to possess. the finest artificial gems come from Paris, and so skillful are the French in their manufacture that even an expert cannot tell the real from the false without making a careful or a mic: ‘oscopic exami- nation. This is due somewhat to the set. ting, for imitation stones are set with as bio lea ae are real ones. ake a diamond tiara of ariificis cs for example,” continued the desiee: ony setting alone cost between three and four hundred dollars, while the stones them. selves may be twice as much It is even easier to counterfeit “In Paris, last summer, I ¥y : pea of oe in the busines: howed me a eautiful three-; necklace which belonged to an longipn duchess. He told me that the necklace originally consisted of two rows, but that customer, being exceedingly desirous of haying a third to match, und not being able to afford it, had commissioned him ts qypply the third row in artificial pearls He had done so, and placed the neckhnes th my hands for examination, ‘ave handled jewels of every $c tion all my life, and T laaghed ais he said he would bet me a louis that? gould not tell which was the false string But I had to guess at it, after all 1 though I had examined the pearls for sec, ¢ral minutes.. And the worst of it was {hat I guessed wrong, and lost my bet.» 4 it _was utterly impo: detect thi difference between the al and the imtt: . ticn. No one, of course, would pect talking to he collection of pearls many é or set almost unique. Se ae “I myself know of a lady in thi has had several real diamond ‘4 able value set side by tation stones, and no pect that all wer who : ( nsider- side with some imi- one ever would sus- ‘€ not genuine gems,”" The Effect That Personal Appearance Has on a Man’s Suc. ens. From the Philadelphia Publie Ledger. As a well-known banker alighted from his carriage in Wall street yesterday an old merchant turned to your correspondent and said: “I remember the time when a man's credit would have suffered if a busi- ness man came to his office in a carriage. In those days one was looked upon with suspicion if he carried a cane, unless he Was actually lame. A man would have had difficulty in arranging a loan at his bank- er's if he wore a mustache, as it was con- sidered the appendage of a ‘sport.’ I well remember that when, as a young man, I began to cultivate the: growth of hair on my upper lip, my employer gave me a friendly warning. Yet one could then go to business in what is now evening dress, and yet be considered as roperl. elegantly, attired. Now a man woud ge hooted at in the streets if he should wear his evening dress in the daytime. But times have changed greatly, or rather fashion has, for human nature is the same. ‘After a long business career my delib- erate judgment is that it pays to wear good clothes, fashionably made. I remem- ber when as a-boy I began my business career at $6 a week. I was sent on an er- rand to the swell tailor’s establishment of the city. After I had done my errand the tailor looked me over, and, noticing my country-made clothes, said to me that I ought to order a new suit. I explained to him my financial condition, when he said to me Kindly, ‘My boy, whatever it might cost, it would be the best business investment you could make. With fashionably cut gar- ments on your own cenfidence’ and self- esteem will be enhanced, and other people will think better of you,’ and he generously offered to make me a suit and let me pay for it whenever I could, or not at all. He Was right. It was as good an investment as I could have made, for I believe the habit it gave me of always wearing good clothes helped_me immensely in my business ca- reer. I traded with that tailor for over thirty years.” oo—_____ The Worth of a Good Song. Frem Chambers’ Journal. Other exampies of the kind might be mul- tiplied indefinitely. Everybody remembers “Grandfather's Clock,” a song which was the “rage” for many a day. Thousands of pounds were made out of it by the music dealers, and the copyright sold only recent- ly for £410, but the composer got cnly a few shillings and ultimately died in destitution. The same thing happened in the case of Alexander Hume’s autiful setting of Burns’ “Afton Water.” It is sald he did not receive even the traditional guinea. ‘The composer of the “She Wore a Wreath of Roses” sold his copyrigh* for 50s., and soon after had the doubtful pleasure of see- ing it repurchased by a second publisher for £500. George Barker obtained only 40s. for “The White Squall,” though Messrs. Cramer afterward paid him £100, and for that immensely popular song, ‘Kathleen Mavourneen,” the composer, Mr. F. N. Crouch, received just £5. THE BUTCHER BARON Gossip About P, D, Armour, His Methods and His Works. STRIKEIN PORK THAT MADE A FORTONE Offices Where Many Employes Are at Work. SEVEN MILLIONS IN WAGES (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) CHICAGO, May 5, 1896. HE WORLD IS HIS field, and the United States is his work- shop. His employes number thousands. His army of work- men is greater than was tha* of Xeno- phen, and it is an army never in re- treat. He pays out in wages alone half a million dollars every month. His business directly gives sup- pert to more than fifty thousand people, and it amounts to one hundred million dol- lars every year. Four thousand railway cars are now speeding over their iron tracks lcaded down with his merchandise. He has his establishments in every city of the United States, and his agents are at work for him in every part of the globe, The cable and telegraph wires, which come into his office are dally loaded with private news for him as to the wants and supplies of the nations of the world, and by tele- graph he sends forth the orders which are to make or lose millions. From the whcat fields of “Russia, from the grain-bearing plains of North India and from the markets of Australla and Europe come the reports of his men, and every morning he has, as it were, a map of the actual condition of the world before him, and can tell whence his products will be in demand, and where and why prices will rise or fall. I refer to Philip D. Armour, the Napoleon of the Chicago capitalists, the baron of the butchers, and the king of the pork- packing and grain-shipping products of the United States. I have heard much of him during my stay here in Chicago, and I had an interesting chat with him in his cage- = room, where he manages his immense Lusine: Phil Armour and His Stolen Mule. But first let me tell you something of the men. He ts, you know, self-made. Born in New York state about sixty years ago, he started west to make his fortune. He was, I think, still in his teens when the gold fever caught him, and he worked his way across the plains and over the mountains to California. His journey was full of rdships, and he tells many interesting les concerning it. At one time his shocs worn out. The sage brush and the cacti cut into his feet, and he was almost Philip D. Armour. wild to obtain some kind of conveyance to carry him onward. At last, upon nearing a town in the Rockies, he met a man riding a very fine mule. He stopped him and ask- ed him if he would sell the animal. The man replied that he did not care to sell, but if Armour really wanted have it for $200. T x than young Armour trade was finally mi mour got the mule fo: about all the money he had. Phil Armour des ling the mule, an was as he trotted on into the town and wa: reain street when he who in fierce tones kad got that mule, Mr The man then said: “Why, man, that mule belongs to Dennis Henks. It has been stolen, and I advise you to give it up at once, and get out of tewn, or you will be in the hands of the vigilance committee.” The man succeeded in therevghly fright- ening Armour, who gave up the mule, and sick at heart hurried on his wa day or two later he came to a miners’ camp in the mountains, and there spent the night. He was asked how he had come, and he told of his adventures, Including the swindle of the mule. As he did so, the miners burst out laughing and one of them said: Why, man, I bought that mule my- self. I t has been sold over and over ain and fully one hundred men have been taken in by it. The man in the town is a confederate of the seller of the mule and they are making their livirg by tak- ing in the tenderfeet.” It did not take long, however, for Phil Armour to get his eye teeth cut.’ He final- ly got to California and there made the little money which formed the foundation of hia fortune. Armour's First Big Strike. Mr. Armour is a far-sighted man. He looks ahead and is not afraid to trust his own judgment. He is broad gauged in his ideas. There is nothing of the pessimist about him. He ts always a bull in the market and never a bear. His great for- tune has been made largely through his faith in the United States and its pros- pects. His first big strike was, in fact, a bold bet on the successful outcome of the war. He had made his little pile in Cali- fornia and had gone into the pork-packing business with old John Plankington of Milwaukee. One day he came into the of- fice and said: “Mr. Piankington, I am going to New York at once. The war is over. Grant has practically beaten the rebels and we will have peace In a few weeks. I am going on to New York to buy all the pork I can get. Mr. Plankington at first questioned the plan, but he finally consented and Armour went east. He bought right and left. The New Yorkers were despondent. They had lost faith in the Union and prices were away down. The news from the field, how- ever, soon changed matters. It soon be- came apparent that the war was really over, and the result came as Armour had Predicted. Prices went away up, and out of that deal Mr. Armour cleared’ something ike a million dollars. There are several other stories of a like nature which I have heard concerning Mr. Armour. He thinks quickly and acts on his own judgment. How the Brokers Were Broken. Armour is not afraid of a big thing, and he is ready to fight to hold his own. An instance of this occurred not long ago. For some time the grain brokers here had hoped to be able to down Armour. They had tried it a number of times and failed. At fast it was discovered that he had bought three million bushels of wheat to be delivered in May. The market was in such a state that he hed to take it. The Chicago elevators were full and the brok- ers laughed in their sleeves when they thought of Armour’s having all that wheat dumped down upon him and no place to put it. They expected he would have to sell it, that they could buy it at their own prices and that he would lose a fortune by it, This was the situation about the Ist of April. On that day Mr. Armour called in his architect and builder. Said he: “I must have within thirty days elevators by which Mr. Ar- $16), which was ju In telling the the delights ght his hear He rode gaily ing through the was met by a man ked him where he Armour told him, built large enough!'t® store three million bushels of wheat.”87 “It can’t be dong"t said the architect. “It must be don8j% replied Mr. Armour. “It is a physicab impossibility,” was the reply. “We mightdo it in a year. We can’t do it in a moth!” tell yop mast be done!” was Ar- mour’s reply. “Cat in some of the other men.” At this, others of! the employes conncct- ed with building @atters were admitted. They ail joined inowith the architect and pronounced the putting up of the structure in that time an impossibility. Mr. Armour listémed to them, but his fron jaw at the close canie together more firmly than ever, and he said: “I tell you it must be done, and it will be done!” He then gave his orders. He bought a little island, knownyas Gooseneck Island, in the mouth of -the Chicago river, on which to build stad over Chi He had ad- vertisements posted,over Chicago that any man whu could Eafdle a pick or drive a nail could find work by calling at P. D. Armour’s stock yards. He put up an elec- trie lighting system and worked three gangs of men eight hours at a stretch, put- ting so many men on the work that’ they covered it like ants. He went out every day and took a look at the work himself, and the result was he had his elevators built three days before the wheat began to come. He took care of his three million bushels and made a big thing off of their sale. Tais was like Armcur. in his strokes. He is Napoleonic in his make-up. He is cne of the few men who can do more than one thing at a time. While he was talking with me messenger boys would bring him telegrams show- ing the condition of the stocks. He would answer them, giving his orders to buy or sell. At such times it seemed to me that he was not listening to my questions and to what I was saying, but I scon discovered that he was carrying both our conver: tion and the.markets in his mind at the same time. I have been told he has this ability in a marked degree. Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, the head of the Armour Tech- nical Institute, says he does not doubt but that Mr. Armour could dictate letters on different subjects to three or four secreta- ries at the same time, holding the thought of each separately and carrying on the three or four threads of thought without confusion. A pur’s Big Stroke in the Panic of 1803. Another instance of Mr, Armour’s Na- poleonic character was seen he in the paric of 1893, He was one of the few men prepared for the panic. He saw it coming months before it was a possibility in the minds of other gieat capitalists of the United States. He began to prepare for it in 1 He had not been feeling well and he went to Europe for his health. While loafing about C: had he came into con- tact with sco of the moneyed men of urope, and from the way they talked he learned that storm was brewing. All at once he decided to come home. The day jarded at New York ne te raphed the jing managers cf his different depart- ments to come there to meet him. ‘They came. The told him that business er teen better, that all of his e rrises were paying, and that they were making money hend over fist. Mr. Armour heard their reports, an then threw a thunderbolt into their midst by telling them that he wanted them to cut down the business to rlosest margin, Said h “There is a storm brewing and we draw i We must have money to pi for it, and I waat you to get all the you ¢ n and put it away in the vaul want you to go out in the str stretch the name of P. D. Armour to i utmost tension. Borrow every dollar you can and then let me kncw the result.” he men rather thought that the as they sometin call him, but they, did as he directed. ast they came to him and told him that the dal out, $2,000,000 in cash. “Oh,” he, “that’s not half enough! Go out and borrow mere. Don't be afraid. Get ali you can, and get it as quick as you was done, and they finally told him that t had secured $4,000,000 in’ cash, In addition to this'he also ha and about $4,000,000 in “Negotiable securitie With a capital of what was practically $8,000,000 on hand, Mr. Armour then sat kin his chair and said to himeelf: “Well, if the crash must come, I, at any am ready for !t.’” It was not long after this that the c did come. Me WAS not to be got love, work or high rates of interest. dropped to the bottom. Armour wa tically the only man who Prepared for it. He turn over and ove d realized a fortune the masses of less ighted business men were on the e was le: How Phil Armour Works. You would not think that a man who imade such big strokes and who is so wealthy would be a hard worker. ‘This, however, is the case. There is no man in Chicago who watches his business more closely and who puts in more hours than P. D. Armour. Hi his lif early riser. office, w summer, lock every morning he remains there usual i He to bed regularly a eats simp gantly, an out of his work. pat power of o ganization, and as we walked together through his big offices he told me that the machine practically ran itself. He took me through the great office room, in which, In cages surrounded by wire scree thing like one hundred men were we away, keeping ac: figuring up column to find the percentage of profits and los and answering the enormous correspondenc which is connected with a great business like this, At the back of the room we stop- ped at the post office, and Mr. Armour asked the clerk within it how many letters they had received that day. The man re- plied that 8,000 letters had come in, and that already about 13,000 had been mailed. The man who writes a letter or so a da can get some idea of Armour’s business by comparing his work with the answering of from eight to ten thousand letters a day. Leaving this part of the room, we next went off to the left, where, in a sort of an L, is the telegraph office of the establish- ment. There were, I judge, a dozen oper- ators at work, and the in Ss which were clicking away were enough to do the business of a city of twenty thousand peo- ple. Mr. Armour has his own private operator apart from these men. This oper- ator has an instrument just outside the little cage which is Mr. Armour's private office. It is his business to take the mes- sages direct from the chief, and he is at his office as early in the morning as Mr. Ar- mour, ready to give him the reports which have been received by telegraph and cable from all parts of the world. These are first disposed of, and by § or 9 o'clock Mr. Armour thoroughly knows just what he wahts his men ‘to do in all parts of the world. By J0 he has practically settled the business problems of the day, and by 11 he is at leisure to meet his friends, or to go about among his employes and chat with them about their work. He is thoroughly democratic in his ways, and he knows per- sonally every man in’ his office. As we walked through the room he spoke to many of the men by name, and he told me that many of his men had: been with him for years, Some of Phil Armour's Methods. Mr. Armour believes in young men and young brains. He has said at times that he was a buyer of youth and brains. He is a good judge of men and he usually puts the right man in the right place. Iam told that he never discharges a man if he can help it. If the man is not efficient he gives instructions to have hjm put in some other department, but to keep him if possible. There are certain things, however, which he will not tolerate, and among these are laziness, fntemperante and getting into debt. As to the last, he says he believes in good wages and that he pays the best. He tells his men that if they are not able to live on the wages he pays them he does not want them to work for him. Not long ago he met a policeman in his office. “What are you doing here, sir?” he asked. “TI am here to serve a paper,” was the reply. “What kind of a paper?” asked Mr. Ar- mour. “I want to garnishee one of your men’s wages for debt,” said the policeman. “Indeed,” replied Mr. Armour; “and who is the man?” He thereupon asked the po- liceman into his, private office and ordered that the debtor’come in. He then asked the clerk how long he had been in debt. The man replied that for twenty years he had been behind and that he could not catch up. “But you get a good salary,” said Mr. Armour, “don’t you?” “Yes,” said the clerk, “but I can’t get out of debt. My life is such that somehow or other I can’t get out.” “But you must get out,” sald Mr.Armour, “or you must leave here. How much do you owe?” The clerk then gave the amount. It was Bulsness He is Napoleonic ! less than $1,000. Mr. Armour took his check book and wrote out a check for the amount. “There,” said he, as he handed the clerk the check. “There is enough to pay all your debts. Now I want you to keep out of debt, and if I hear of your again getting into debt you will have to leave.” The man took the check. He did pay his debts and remodeled his life on a cash basis. About a year after the above inci- dent happened he came to Mr. Armour and told him that he had had a place offered him at a higher salary and that he was go- ing to leave. He thanked Mr, Armour and told him that his last year had been the happiest of his life and that getting out of debt had made a new man of him. I could give a number of similar stories concerning Mr. Armour which I have heard through his friends here at Chicago. The above incidents came frem them, and not from Mr. Armour himself. 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An Irish member of the sixth regiment of South Carolina infantry was stationed on the beach of Sullivan’s Island, with orders to walk between two specified points, and to let no one pass without giving the coun- tersign. He was one of those soldiers who believed in obeyirg orders to the letter. Two hours after Hugh had thus been sta- tioned, the corporal with the relief ap- peared in the mcorlight, and was aston- ished to see Hugh walking to and fro up to his waist in water. The tide had come in. Vho goes there?” gemanded the senti- Relief,” answered the corporal. “Halt, relief! Advance, corporal, give the covntersign.” “But I am not coming drowned. Come out ard you.”” and in there to be let me relieve Never a bit,” seid Hugh. “The lieuten- ant told me not to leave me post.” “Well, then,” said the corporal, starting to move eway, “you may stay there all night. “Halt!” thundered the sentry. “I'll put a hole in ye if you pass without the coun- tersign,” and he ceckea and leveled the gun. ‘onfound you and the li swered the corporal. “E it if I bawl it out to you “Yis, me darling, and the liftenant said it must b en in a whisper. In with ye; me finger’s on the trigger. an- ody will hear al to do to wade out where the faithtul sen- stood. e ji “ ‘There was nothing for the corpo but said thet worthy, “it's well The dirthy tide has almost —so— At Railroad Restaurant. From the Bexton ‘Transcript. ‘Traveler.—“But this s stone cold.” Waiter.—“Probably. 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