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HOW MIKE DONOVAN CHANCED JOHN L’S BASEBALL CAREER Former World’s Heavyweight Champion, When a Youth in Boston, Had Leanings for the Diamond Until Dono- van Invited Him to Box, an Event That Changed Sul- livan’s Entire Life—Recol- lections of “Bare-Fist” Days| of the Ring. By Robert Edgren. HEN John L. Sullivan was « boy in Boston, half a century ago, he had one great ambi- tion, He wanted to become a pro- fessional aliplayer. John might have been the Babe Ruth of those eerly days and we might have been Anding his picture in some old team Mine-up, decorated with a full crop of the whiskers then favored by Big Leaguers, if Prof. Mike Donovan hadn't visited Boston in 1878. Mike Donovan was, middleweight ehampion. There was little money in boxing when matches had to be held out in the woods. Mike was training for a championship bout | and raising his training expense! money by giving a few exhibitions | in different towns. A Boston friend “suggested he might do well by taking | ‘en @ local sem!-pro ballplayer who had done a little scrapping. So John ylor, n Flood, Paddy Bullivan was invited to a “set-to” | Ryan, Jitomy Tug Wilson, : ; iarite Mitche! rt Slade, Alf with Donovan, four rounds. John | Grcnfield, Ja Henot ar came. At that time he was a husky | McCaffrey and Patay Cardiff. youngster of twenty, broad shovid-| This does not include hia tour of | [}¢¢ , a the United Btates {n 1883, lasting nine ||| 2 Ae Beggar s Opera An Amusing Relic. ered, 5 feet 10 1-2 inches tail, weigh- | months, during which time he) ing about 180 pounds. | posted ‘a standing offer of $1,000 to Being world’s champion middle-|any man* who could “stay” four weight, and a first class boxer, Mike | rounds. He knocked out over fifty | | vice | men who made the attempt, many of Donovan thought he'd put the novice | tiem in one round each. Even at THE EVE ING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920. JOHN L. ONCE AMBITIOUS TO BE BASEBALL STAR (Copyright, 1920, by Robert Edgren.) at his ease. He felt grateful to the./thiy time Sullivan was paying no at- boy anyway for appearing at his/tention to training or condition and Denefit. So he held out his hand to | had passed his best fighting form. In 1888, at the age of thirt Sullivan before the bell and said) (fought a 39-round ,dra pleasantly: Charlie Mitchell at Chantilly, France, “I'll let you off easy, young fellow." | in a cold rain and heavy mud, in « “You'll be lucky If I don’t break | WOOd on a private estate. He was your neck,” roared Sullivan. chasing Mitchell and merely turned Right there, ip a line, you have the | to meet the light-footed Engiisiiman’s character of the man who afterward | attacks and traded blow for blow became the most famous world’s heavyweight champion that ever held @ ring title turiously enoug arguments ov this, kno FRIENDS, terrific battle in the woods near Rich- | jignt tas for the bout, Mike Donovan) burg, Miss, in seventy-five rounds.| eutboxed sullivan for a moment, | Owing to poor cond when John L. suddenly rushed upon | ji") {i Bim with such fury that Donovan | he was desperately sick and vomited Goubled forward to protect his body | at intervals, but kept on fighting with right arm down full length across Mike's shouMer blades, the terrific force of the vlow knocking Mike flut ‘on this tace, breaking his nose. Wor years after that Sullivan and| English champion, to fight him, He/is sentiment. He beat every Englishman | Mike Donovan were friends, and no|Went to the National Sporting Club, | mentary one ever had greater respect for Sul- | Where Smith was to box four rounds | performance. Hvan's fighting ability than Donovan, | With Alf Greenfleld. Sullivan was in-| If marriages are made in heaven, @ullivan’s rise to championship | troduced to Bdward Prince of Wales.|they surely are not made in Green- honore was rapid. All fighting in his.| _ “T’ve often heard of you,” said John.| wich Village with time was under Londom Prize Ring | thinking the Prince might feel som?) A gallant highwayman takes “wives” rules, with bare fists, both hitting |embarransment at meeting so famous as he je a} they proposition hig lot in Newgate Prison. “There's no use in Smith boxing that} lot of women dancing around him ‘ h babies in their arma is a spec- hat might be considered shock - these musical and wrestling throws allowed, rounds | man as Sullivan. Then he n terminating when either man was jown. ts Just after we had both seen Demp-| dub, Prince,” he said. “He's in train~ | w sey Knookout Willard, [ asked Will-| ing tq fight and I'm just off the ship. | ta fam Muldoon, who was long associa-| but put me in the ring with him and ted with Sullivan, how he would|!f I don’t knock him out in three) qa compare Sullivan with the new cham-| rounds I'll give him $1,000 and take jullivan at his best, and Dempsey | Wales asked Smith to accept Sulli- to-da! would make’ a wonderful |van's offer, and Sullivan entered the match,” said Mr. Muldoon. ‘Sullivan | ting, met Smith face to face and re- was the hardest hitter I ever saw, @uilivan, at hia b weighed 195 | England. pounds to Dempse: 83, but Demp-|_ SwHvan's ring career ended Sept ey is two inches taller and has a/ 7. 1892, when, fighting with gloves ing r reach. Sullivan was a little | @tead of bare fists, he was knocked faster and @ better boxer, but his | OUt by Jim Corbett at New Orleans. legs weren't as good as Dempsey's. When he reeled to I think with Sullivan and Dempsey in te crowd ‘with daze a ring the winner would be the man |? characteristic speech who got home the first heavy punch.” | “Gentlemen, 1 Boxing and other sports were on a | often. I can « D Aifferent footing when Sullivan be-| beaten by an American fighting. Vighters and their fo Towere were outside the law, helr for liatter yeara he became a sober and extent, and championship | mate! serious citizen, made a smal! fortune with the “raw une” were usually held | With & monologue on the stage, and out in the woods, in a haatily put up|fetived to his farm at Lawrence, an end be forgot Between fights |t was the habit of | Tc! mtly came t ‘fighters to dissipate heavily. To-day], Sullivan will ne generosity with million dollars of ng wine for the ltving man in the world, Competition |@nd the | reckle iy hot, and no dissipated boxer can | Which he scattere ever reach the top in his class, Sulji-| bis earnings, bu apd passed the top of his form at| poor old woman sell twenty-four. on a wintry street corner, added a Compare his life whh Dempaey's. | glamour of romance to a career tha Byven when he has no match jn sight ill never be duplicated tn these me | Jack Dempsey is out on the road at | prose'e times | | | daylight every morning for a run of Copyaht. 1921, by Robert FAsrer miles, Returning, he has a pal rests, eats breakfast, and | Yale Five Defents Carnegie Tech fater in the day boxes several rounds Team. we ors to ‘hed early. He never | PYPTSRL Dec rinks liquor or smokes. He Is as |y, D © defen ted ge coveral ar haskenball five defeated C five Inat night by’a score of 40 to 25 In| greet }m game marked by the the visitors, The net shoo! pion under oath not to break training for @ full year before competing in Pg Sie é crowd on their feet in enthusinam, al- OLD. mien) Bion y DO MUCH |, ough his shooting of foul goals was jonly fair. Bullivan drank heavily when not | a he raining and trained as little as po! gible. He kept no regular hours,| Chapman Defeats Ward tn Pine) orchestr wently he fought without half harst Golf Tour getting into condition, depending| PINBHURST, N. ©, Dec 31.—Junes| loyally, perhaps because, as Mr. Mor- upon the terror of his name and the|c, Ward of Kansas City, the (rans-| @n20n fury of his first attack to beat an op-| Missisaipp! champion, went down to de-|COMPanY Who sat near me suggested, Toe down, His vitality was amaz-| reat gt the hands of John 1. Chapman Among the famous heavy-| went out in 39 and came home in #6 the heel he beat were J. Donaldson, (or ® 76 and won the match 2 and 1. arms effecttyels, ¥ If you ave inclined to seek out-of- Jonn |the-way experiences in the theatre, With | you will find one Opera,” that carries bac fat, and after a few rounds gave UP | broug 4 year of crim through the medium of a competent Another Amer!- until both were too weary fo lift their nglish hands. can manager anticipated Mr. Sullivan settied’ kins's enterprise fifty y * his right to be London hi called world's champion a year after|and so hi HOW MIKE AND JOHN BECAME Ing fut Jack Kilrain In a! ‘To acclaim anything old is the de- ceeded, taken to the’ old thing, “the work minds; n Caused bY | talking about pation, Sullivan came neat they go inte losing this fight. In the middle of tt) the | Beggar’ ih | give-aw and raised’ both arms to defend his| bulldog courage and outlasted D'8| van operettas + ‘on man. faint touches of satire, so far as the head. At this Sullivan brought his ALWAYS OUT FOR ENGLISHMEN,| court or Genres 11 Sullivan was intensely American in| this version of “The Beggar's Opera,” touched up he ever fought. When In bis prime he | Bennett went to England to force Smith, the|comparatively polite, though “wench” 7 , # established, ee Pp stacies safely. rl of “Bi of the Gilbert and i A old ig concerned in in the course of Mr, and even when the best of ing even fault could be found with the |the first ship back to America performance charming Polly and Dora beautiful Lucy. zon Percy Heming car- ries off the part of Macheath in good Lena Maitland gives a broad parabi reloiti, Malatesta as the Sacriatan and Paltrinert, lian and Ceci! Arden, a tuneful herd, were In the cast. Last, but not least, was Beniamino Gigli as Marlo} Cavardossi, ‘This young tenor, as I have seid before, 'k to be considered seriously, more so now, perhaps, be- cause of the illness ot “the peerleas To use a homely phrase, the | tre full of tenors but few are} artists, Mr. Gigli has a voles of| lovely ‘qua! ence. If these are Uraina, and he does not get the “ head," he will reach far and accom plish much. One thing should be {m- pressed upon him at once: He must | peated it, but Smith flatly refused and] paren but I think Dempsey hits as hard. | avoided Sullivan during his stay In}touch to the part of Mrs The old songs are given with a ring- ing sound that makes “The Beggar's Oper: teyer'ne mae] Albert Coates, — |: woods wet ant was] English ‘Guest,’ Sullivan never fought again. I! Leads Symphony By Sylvester Rawling. ving, after dodging the peace oMeors,| Mass, where his adventurous le) walter Damrosch, at Carnegie Hall interrupted the the successful fighter ia the cleanest |The great fighting of his early daya,| sequence of the Symphony Soctety’s Historical Cycle of concerts showing the growth of vhe symphony ‘by per- 1, | yesterday An, beginning at twenty, reached | crowd or handing $100 bills to some] tmitting Albert Hing newspapers! baton as “guest conductor ches! prog ates's engagements his appearance ‘oates has won ngiand as con reason ts that Mr, abroad would ermit this sound reputation in a last wor and of opera at Cc justified the human jaw between the ag seventeen and twenty- ork of| Waa according to American tradition, g of Al-| but the Olympic games. Jerman was admirable and had the) Manded so spontaneous and enthusiastic struction of the pe did mop bis brow, and how graciously M written by Theodor ne was of insisting upon the sharing it with him! ra certainly did serve him arul by mindfu Buena Vista he orc Metropolitan Opera ‘a such a& lovable man. . Coates is a big man, fe won hie first thirt} ring batties | of Greenwich in the second match round proud, with a virile personality 100 rounds of fighting—an average |of the mid-winter tournament played ha« | \ three and one-thim rounds for each | on the championsulp course, Chapman back, and for the most part keeping Uranus, 8—Bighs vison, 5—Wisdom. 6-—Mi “Biyouac of the Dead.” 81 the buyer beware #—@ootland 16—Delta He uses both ‘The sweep of his jl right arm espeotally {s commanding. ; stay in the pleyure; he must not sing | Artur Bodanzky conductor, will play Yet he achieves his purposes, delicate Planissimi gnd crashing creacendl, without seeming effort. His success was indisputatte. gramme is another matter. It wus far,cry from the dainty, exquisite, {dyllio suite dor strings of the seven- teenth century by that justly re nowned early master of British music, Henry Pyrcell, arranged and edited by Mr. Coates himeelf, to the “Knook ‘em in tne old Kent Road" realism of our own day as exemplified in Vaughan Willame’s “London” sym- phony, presented for the first time in America. Mr. Williams has attempted a big| thing tn his effort to give musical e: pression to London, that great of humanity, and to expose its heart. Imagine somebody task for New York! With alldue re- ‘concerts at Aeolian Hall last night. spect to Mr. Williams he husn’t suc- For the moet part it is only the obvious that he has depicted by Composer, who «died last year. bis “various aights and sounds of London,” but as he modestly says must @uceeed or fall as music and in no other way.” His cechestration |e colorful and graphic. entiment embodied his expouition of the calm, silent er, old Father Thames, comes near- | rtraiture, The chimes | the cries of “Sweet Lavender,” the raucous voice of the “Coster 'Arry,” the broken tune of the fiddler, the “double-shuffle jig,” the sounds of the mouth organ, the march of the “Hunger Squad" are by turn amusing and pathetic, but all are upon the surface; they do not por-| tray the entity of London, the pul of the great metropolis which, in a very large measure, is that of Eng- land, The third, and middle, number of | Coates's programme wan Blgar's symphonic yariations “Enigma,” 6¢ which impressed me as the compor!- tion never had done before. Mu: cally it has more significance than a mere depiction of sir Edward's friends. ar “Toaea,"’ at the Metropolitan Opera Touse Jast night, attracted a scld-out that enjoyed a worthy per- mance conducted by Mr, Moran- as Seanpia; Ananian as An- D'Angelo, hep y and a good atag: ; es supplemented hy ‘The New York Rvenina World QUESTIONS. 1—Between what two States doos the Columbia River form a natural houndary? 2—Who was the ancestor of the Greek and Roman gods? 3—What di &—What teeth usually » eo? 6—What name is period immediately following the ae oman Empire and receding the revival of learning in taly? 7—What_ American classic wa a eldiers wh intuok: 8—What doe S—Of wh ippi called? ANSWERS. on and Oregon. 23 Benjamin Ha: to and.at the audience as if he were on the concert stage. at a benefit convert for the Babies’ at Carnegie Hall on Sunday Fritz Kreisler will be the With his swan came down pouted after breaking soliloquy, to the footlights and the manner of Tamagno. jast appearance with the orchestra until the end of March. Arturo Toscanini Orchestra will give @ concert at Car- on Monday evening for the Italian Welfare League. “Miss Bobby” Besler, soprano, aym- pathetically accompanied at the piano by Adele Benttys, gave a charming of songs for young |and grown-up children yesterday af- |ternoon at the Princess ‘Theatre, Her programme comprised Songs of the Practise Hour, of the South, | France, of Any Day, and Canterbury ‘Tales, the latter by Liza Lehmann, Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin will give organ recital at the City College on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, but there will be no Wednesday recitals until February. ea his usual fr The Griffes Maha Thora, Ambrose Small Myntery. TORONTO, Dee, 31. has been committed for trial | Istrate G. Denise charged with the theft of Victory Bonds valued at ‘operty of Ambrose J. Siw ti, mine: eatrical man of this city. not guilty to bot! and of abducting his former em- mezzo-soprano: Steeb, pianist. and Sascha Jacobinoff, tempting a like| Violinist, gave the first of a series of | hive The organization js named in honor Griffes, the American) The National Symphony Orchestra, YOU MARRY, ? SOUR HUSBAND OVER AGAIN Instalment No. 45. SUNSHINE THAT FOLLOWS THE 1s positively wicked to have so |many thousands tied up in diamonds when there ls so much suffering in But there's no stopping lavish everything on HIS will never do,” I said to that way from the Goperient, 1080, by the Press Pubtshing 188 HBAD found them liv- winter and they had only one palr of shoes for the eleven children and but fow clothes. They were in absolute want, But ina few days Miss Head provided food, shoes and warm clothing for them all. Every child but the baby etarted to school, where ‘hey remained for years, They were unusually ® bright children and made rapid progress, In I met the eldest daughter a few years later and she told me they lived In @ fine, two-story house on thi of the family were at work and earned a joint salary of $400 per month. Three of the boys were in high school—one in college working bis way. Sho said, “Mr. Stilwell, T often wonder what would have beem our future but for Bethany School and all your kindne: Afterward she wrote me she had married a very successful Chicago business man. All I can say—whoever he is, he bas an excellent. wife. I have lost track of Miss Head, but wherever she is, I hope she has a happy life, for she was one of God's noblewomen and deserves all the blessings this world can give. CHAPTER IX. I DISOBEY THE BROWNIES "fT was seldom that 1 disobeyed my messongers, but always endeav- ored to do as near as I could what they wished me to do, a all orders they gave me were logical and practical. ‘The Port Arthur fight, lasting as It did for years, had crippled the road and gave us a floating debt of $00,000, but in Holland we had a friend who represented one of the most un- selfish men I ever met, His whole aim in life was to watch the stock- holders’ intere: He bought nearly CHAPTER Vil, contracte slipped to the round, reeled, but in some way REDEEMING. HELL'S || "°° Mr. Weeks’ omce, and that HALF ACRE ‘Avvorley had Moe en 6, 1 men. In my hands were contracts (Couttnaned,) for millions, and I had not the serateh: a pen, ing in two rooms, It was|changed the trend of my whole life, — five years the family moved to Chi-|Golden Rute of Christ cago. fuctus taught the path. I was able to trace thie path and: On (The Mew Tork Brening World.) ly reat benefactor wan This disobedience to the Brownies CHAPTER X. have told me that there tw only one path to follow im business, and that is the or a8 Con- have handled over one hundred mil lions without @ stain of any kind on north side facing the lake, that five|My name, The companies the Brownles have outlined and I have promoted have paid to date over millions In interest ‘and dividends. — Among them are some of the moat successful railroads and commercial enterprises of this continent. The only important one that was not sueceseful was the Kansas Mexico and Orient Ratlroad, and it not been for the Mexican Revolu- tion this road Would be finished fo- day and be the great short line to Central and South America and would have opened up the great treasures of Northern Mexico. During two panics I was able to send from Europe three millions dure ing each panic, and secured over twenty-five millions in all from for- eign lands, Then, during the years _ in which I was bulldihg these six now railroads and rebuilding the St Louls and Omaha and Quibey, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad, of which I waa Preakient, we had no National Reserve Bank to stabilize conditions, Aby powerful interest that so de« sired could bring on a panic, The banking world was so sensitive — at that time that had America’s greatest banker happened to eat lob= er a la Newburgh and got 4 ion and transmitted that dency to those associated with S this alone was enough to. bring om panic, The sermon gives in this came to me in one of the most periods of my life, just aa 1 had ished the reorganization of the Sas City Southern Ratlroad, In HE Brownles all of my If es , 7 hae to retain control of the road and re- all of this floating debt, We needed thousands of new cars, but had not the credit to buy them. ‘The grain was moving south in train load lots, 1 had closed a contract with a large Chicago house for two ship loads of msal per month, and this we used to load the grain cars north. The business of the milla and the grain business was so large that we were threatened with sults because we could net get cars to move It, Never had @ new road jumped into greater business. The need of new cars was very urgent, and I talked it over with George M, Pullman, one of God's noblemen and one of the deat friends of my life, We tele- graphed each other every other day. He nad been « friend of my grand- father, who started him in business. He sald, “Well, Arthur, you must have more cars, Next week Mr. Calif, my auditor, and I will go over the road with you." ‘They did, Pullman at once saw its gr myself finally, the heap into which I had fallen and drying my streaming eyes. “If Hugh does not care enough for remember my birthday, why should L cry my eyes out for him, make my nose red and spoil my com- rising from time we met.” y(hing—everybody, conspired to make me more wretched. 1 hated Mrs. Moore in that moment live for a thousand years, I would never be able toward her, although she was quite innocent of intent to hurt me. The afternoon couldn't read, an All the time that Hugh would rush a . senger to me with an eleventh hour | desire to help the grandson of my quite cordial sed drearily, I bathed my face with cold water, ow. with powder and back a few stray might ag well be a philosopher and make the best of my lot. A ring of the doorbell at Unmindful of the traces of tears on my face, I hurried to the door. expreasman liad a huge package for Deposlting It Inside the door, he 4 out his book for me to sign. remembered. mothers ulways did remember. they were not always protesting thelr bridegrooms, | they lived their love for you, in sea son and out of season. that teembled with exeltement I pried Geraldine Farrar, a fascinating . IN good volee: Seott!, incom- | d half-expecti o'clock Hugh telephoned me. He was terribly busy—had to work until the last moment. and be down at &t 6.30 o'cloak? Could T Arews the Huckina Slotel He would send a taxl Hin votce wag deadly. mat- ter-of-fact and promised nothing. At least, L would don a becoming orn. tume and cheer mywelf in that way. | out of gratitude for the start Hamlin Hugh was waiting for me at of the Huokins, of the taxi, he startled me|the company two mililon dodars for Kisting me right there before all | the passers-by. he | big | notes with no cash paym ! * more like Chrietmay than a birthday." T exclaimed aloud Thore wan a Japanese kimono of black satin broidered in scarlet and gold was a box of exquisite handker i to match my There waa # bottle French sachet pow 1 could only murmur, “Hugh before he hurried me Into ¢ the Sheridan When we entered the Mining room the head walter led us to @ table t centrepiece of violets and small pink ¢ were corsagon of same flowers both for Mra Sheridan lifted mine 1 dix covered underneath It a emal), whiie ed me effusively Jleather bill-book Would not Hugh be moved to shame when he saw ail these lovely A half hour later *he florist's wagon lcontract. It remained on my desk was a pin of odd de workmanship; precious jewels blue enamel and eold ign and wonder not diamonds or! Tey said, "Go to Chicago at once | of deep| and get that contract signed,” but | it] ¥ datayed. The warning came night | admired by he had remembered after leaving the how \t Was a corsage of sweet jpeas and Illes of the valley from Mil dred Benson, with her greotings I had not yet cleared away all the {tier of wrappings when Mra, Ruse!) | went off perfectly and we were as happier, and the climax of {t all came when the walter brought in a won- blaging with M “Why, this looka like you have been ." she commented my gifts from her and father scattered “What a trick you played on me— what a delicious trick! when we reached the most wonder- launched forth with an air of supreme satisfaction my anniversaries are Russell never forgets a 1 have the most devoted & week passes that nd me candy or flow- my birthdays he always gives T have #0 Many DOW that E bave fo, keg mots ot be bank. I tell Russell sometl aveat emptor mean? intry is the thistle the national iblem? 10—What is the formation of the mouth of the Missi laying my cheek against this morning, and yeu ha no perfectly happy to-night "Dear Alma, it was a rather aan one out, And then I heard the news. | advantage | took, wasn’t itt’ boy! Hugh kissed me warmly, Then we| account of | both laughed (To Be Continued Monday.) (Oopariatt, 1000. tx the he does not jie ages. 7— ‘Bal! Grndicate, Ine.) news advantages. Ho would not talk of any plan, but requested me to have all the directors of our road at the Lawyers’ Club, New York City, two later. We mot, as request and after lunch Mr. Pullman apoke very feelingly of my grandfather's friendship for him. He recounted my grandfather's work {tn New Yorle Btate, told about his starting Mr. Pullman in business, and sald, “My friendship for your President, my good friend lrads me to do something that I know would not be called a good business arrangement. “| have just been over your road with my auditor, Mr, Calif. I see {ts great business advantages, 1 recognize Its need of additional equipment. [understand the burden the Port Arthur fight has been, and {twell gave me, and oul of friend- ship for his grandson, T will furnish uipment nt, and @niy interest the fffat five years ‘The Pullman Company can bulld part of these, the reat Mr. Stilwell can order elmewhere.” Well, auch help T had never hoped for. Tt was the deliverance of my great road. Tears of gratitude came to my eyes, and all the directors, T thik, felt aa T did. What a relief froin a great burd Tat once ga orders for sand \ccomotives, Mr. Pullman told me to have my attorney draw up & con- trot covering his agreement and ha vould aign it, T returned to Kansas City and Judge Trimble drew up the equipment — fifteen - year for days. The Browntes got worried. | after t, but my hands were full of the great business developing on the road and | again delayed, and | that contract remained unsigned for is month notwithstanding the night!y warnings. A few weeks later Mr. Pullman telegraphed me to come to Chicago and he would assume the contmet. I exclaimed | ‘Tix coupled with the Brownlee warnings moved me, | roled up the contracts and started for Chicago. All that night I could scarcely ep. | ing of the kindness of this great) rou made me so perfectly: wretched | MunkIns OF ths Mitesh my pre: (lia ho made the ade me |ojous roll of contracts, T stood at the | door of the car ao I could be the first main its President, | created trust of five members, in that thought ls and could be relied upon, though | was warned in my by the Brownies against two bers of the trust, I was also wi by a number of Chicago and Phila delphia friends, During the year that preceded the whereby it would be possible to great profit, of which I was to share, but to do so I would have been com- pelled to betray the confidence ot stockholders and those who trusted me in my varied enterprises in @ moat dishonest manner. I be- Heve even had it not been for measengers that | was honest eno! to have refused. opted these offers it would cnism of these three men, when ti firet election of officers was held was, of course, not elected Prosi dent, notwithstanding at thin time @ .|Rreat majority of the stock was held by my personalgriends—those whom, { had interested in the road, and who would never have consented to the plans of the reorganization had, i | reaident not expected me to be P: ed, | Se compa The prestent He can offer of this friendship 90 per cent. of these men stockholders in my new road, Kansas City, Mexico and Orient. Two or three nights after the pa- ers announced the election of the resident of the Kansas City Sout crn, my messengers came and gave me this remarkable sermon, parts of which I often used in talke oefore railroad men and various organiza- tions I was called upon to It started out as follows: ‘e® understand fully your suf. ferings over the lons of your rall« road and we wish to lift this ture den from your mind. It ts not the ” first time that those who have stood for honesty have been be+ trayed. Be thankful that you were strong enough to refuse the devil's gold (which Ia profit with- @ a jut honor). You shall never want for # doing. Consider that life is like a great flywheel of an that it haa no beginnin, no ending, that it is never ‘idle. Al- ways in harmonious action revolve ing upon its axis, Look upon mor= tal life as just a fly speck upon that great wheel and consider © what a small thing this un see these three men dic, We will soon give you important new work to undertake. these three men die—two of the several years younger than ain now, and the third about my How did these messengers that L would outlive these three CHAPTER XI. 1 SEE MY T ao dinner given to Sir don just before he and Doyle departed for Aw calling out “Extra! Extra! Puli | death of % Publ Ue fealings.. 1 loved | Tift na Xho bed Been wy father My u ee ae a At any rate, I knew that if I ae~ forever end further communication with my spirit friends. Owing to the antag- ant incident is, You will live to ‘This little sermon is just as vivid te me to-day &s when given. As my messengers said, I have lived to ase. SPIRIT FRIENDS thur Conan Doyle in Lame