be sent to Alabama in February and March; North
Carolina a little later; then West Virginia. These same cars then do
service in the Fall in Michigan. It naturally follows that much of the
time cars have to be hauled empty, and this is a fact that few people
figure on when computing receipts from tonnage. Now, instead of the good
old way of sending a man in charge, there are icing-stations, where the
car is looked for, thoroughly examined and cared for as a woman would
look after a baby. In order to bring apples from Utah to Colorado, and
oranges from California to Arizona, icehouses have to be built on the
desert at vast expense. And this in a climate where frost is unknown.

To work the miracle of modern industrialism requires the help of
bespectacled scientists from Germany, and a fine army of artists, poets,
painters, plumbers, doctors, lawyers, beside the workers in wood and
metals.

The whole business is a creation, and a beneficent one. It has opened up
vast territories to the farmer, gardener and stock-raiser, where before
cactus and sagebrush were supreme; and the prairie-dog and his chum, the
rattlesnake, held undisputed sway.

To the wealth of the world it has added untold millions, not to mention
the matters of health, hygiene and happiness for the people.

* * * * *

The Scotch-Irish blood carries a mighty persistent corpuscle. It is the
blood that made the Duke of Wellington, Lord "Bobs," Robert Fulton,
James Oliver, James J. Hill, Cyrus Hall McCormick and Thomas A. Edison.
It makes fighters, inventors and creators--stubborn men who never know
when they are licked. They can live on nothing and follow an idea to its
lair. They laugh at difficulties, grow fat on opposition, and obstacle
only inspires them to renewed efforts.

Yet their fight is fair, and in the true type there is a delicate sense
of personal honor which only the strong possess. Philip D. Armour's word
was his bond. He never welched, and even his most persistent enemies
never accused him of double-dealing. When he fought, it was in the open,
and he fought to a finish. Then when his adversary cried, "Enough!" he
would carry him in his arms to a place of safety and bind up his wounds.
Rightly approached his heart was as tender as a girl's.

In business he paid to the last cent; and he expected others to pay,
too. For clerks in a comatose state, and the shirker who would sell his
labor and then connive to gi