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By Henry van Dyke
"Half-Told Tales." Full of poetry and fancy, and each
with a lesson for the time. Beautifully illustrated by
Garth Jones.
By Richard Harding Davis
"The Invasion of England." What happened when the
Germans were reported on the English Coast. Illustrated.
By Edith Wharton
"Xingu." A witty and most amusing satire on certain
seekers after "Culture."
Dickens's Children
A series of four paintings by Jessie Willcoz Smith, beau
tifully reproduced in color.
A Berkshire Winter
by Walter Prichard Eaton. The coming and the passing
of the snow in the New England hills. Illustrated by
Walter King Stone, printed in tint.
Other Short Stories, Poems, etc
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Doctor Walter Wyman, surgeon
general in the marine hospital ser
vice, died as the result of a carbuncle.
The government's criminal case in
the proceedings against the alleged
Bathtub trust -will begin in the
federal court at Detroit, January 30.
Sumner Curtis, correspondent for
the Chicago Record-Herald, declares
that.Roosexolt has set the politicians
at the national capital guessing as
to his inclinations towards the re
publican nomination next year. Some
claim that La Follette's lieutenants
have the situation in Ohio so well in
hand that unless Roosevelt becomes
a candidate Ohio will instruct for La
Follette.
ing that Rockefeller, through Gates
and his agent, took from them in
1893, $10,000,000 in Mesabe iron
mine and Duluth, Mesabe & North
ern railroad securities to satisfy a
call loan of $420,000. These securi
ties were afterward sold to the
United States Steel corporation and
are today a part of that corporation's
vast holdings.
After Leonidas Merritt had testi
fied that he had gone to New York
with $10,000,000 in securities and
had met Mr. Rockefeller and two
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The Stanley steel investigating
committee of the house is having
some interesting sessions just now.
Following is & Washington dispatch
to the Chicago Record-Herald:"
Alfred Merritt of Duluth, Minn.,
firse president of the Duluth, Mesabe
and Northern railroad, who styled
himself a 'lumber jack" unacquain
ted with the methods of the "money
trust," told the house steel trust
1 investigating committee that through
loans or lees than $1,000,000 from
John. D. Rockefeller he had lost his
holdings in the Mlsabe Iron mines
and railroad, properties , now owned
by the United States corporation and
estimated to be worth as high as
$700,000,000.
The introduction of Mr. Rocke
feller's name in this manner almost
resulted in the issuance of a sub
poena; duces tecum for him to appear
before the committee with the con
tract made at the time of the Merritt
loans. Representative Beall of
Texas moved that this be done. No
objections were heard when Chair
man Stanley put the motion, but the
committee decided later in executive
session not to call Mr. Rockefeller
until Leonidas Merritt had testified.
Merritt and his brother. Leonidas
Merritt, were amone the original
mine owners in the Lake Superior
region ana part owners and builders
or tne Duluth, Mesabe and Northern
railroad.
Alfred Merritt declared that Tia
was induced through F. D. Gates, Mr.
Rockefeller's secretary, "in charge
of his charitable work," to put up all
nis holdings as collateral for loans
from Mr. Rockefeller in 1892 and
1893. One loan was for S420.000.
Others were for various sums. Gates,
Merritt saia, was a Baptist preacher,
in wnom ne, naa confidence, and who
assured him that by placing a call
loan he would not be pressed and
that ho would bo taken care of.
The witness related how, two
months after he had put up his col
lateral with Mr. Rockefeller, during
the panic of 1893, Rockefeller called
the loan, giving him twenty-four
hours to raise $420,000, and that be
ing unable to raise the money he
ana nis orouier lost their property.
Ho admitted that Mr. Rockefeller
offered him an opportunity to buy
his. property back within a year, but
declared that the oil king told finan
ciers to keep their hands off" and
that he was unable to raise money
anywhere.
On the following day the Associ
Hd carded this despatch:
John D. Rockefeller and his agent,
Rer. F. D. Gates, of Montclaire, N. J.,
will be invited by the house com
mitter of inquiry into the United
States Steel corporation to reply to
testimony given by Alfred and Leoni
das Merritt ot Duluth, Minn., charg-
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