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ao second Eiiah, died'ina lirium at Shiloh House, Zion| : City, near Chicago, on Saturday, March oth: He was, in many respects, a remarkable man, and |. now that he has run his course, |. 'various estimates of his character work may be expected." By some he will be lauded and lament: "Many of the al 'Stree t ers'and a certain class of the York newspapers agree in. ch g- Al ing President Roosevelt with caus: ing the panic of March 14th, ©.' The Sun made a bittérattac con' the President. It said: ed, by others caricitured 'and distressing and disastrous siation «condemned. "That he was an astute; and 'in many respects an. original and} capable character can scarcely 'be denied. Zion City, with its ex: ceptional location, its magnificent outline, its huge 'industries, and its perfeot municipal arrangements "bears striking testimony to the shrewdness, daring and business ability of its projector and found: er. The mass of people from: all directions 'that the * Prophet" collected about himself 'and imbued with his doctrine, must be regarded as evidence of his singu- lar personal magnetism. - Men and women from nearly all grades of society were attracted to him 'and became devotedly attached to him. They gave him their money, they consented to his per-: sonal claims, they submitted to his dictatorship. © He undoubtedly possessed many 'of the qualifica: tions. of a leader.among men. But that he was a wily deceiver, a rascal and a rogue, an unmitigated fraud is the unhesitating belief of hundreds. Beyond a. doubt he «was heady, arrogant, self domin? ated. Perhaps it would be nearest the truth, as it would be most charitable, to say that he himself was deceived, self-deceived. He evidently believed that be had a mission; . He could scarcely have followed' the daring course he took had he nat had some faith at least 'in' himself. It' is quite possible for a man to cherish a conception that is altogether false 'mntil he comes to think it true. It #s possible for a man to repeat a lie so often that it eventually loses ats false aspect for him. So this * Second Elijah " who so persist: ently asserted himself may have really reached the belief that he was some great one. has resulted from Roosevelt's p sistent attacks 'upon railroads. attacks which have been @onduct: ed with methods so violent "and spectacular that they bave: result: ed in a complete breakdown off general railroad credit and 'gone: quent destruction "of confidence, We do not mind saying to Roose: velt that 'when 'confidence is im- paired 'credit vanishes, and that when credit vanishes, business is no more... Roosevelt has destroy: ed the credit of railroads. Even with . his. great - power - and - his passionate pursuit of his.quarry he could not: have effected his pur: pose had it not been, first, for public "indignation at disclosures of a system of critninal rebates, and secondly, popular disgust and rage precipitated by Harriman, Kuhn, Loeb, 'and Schiff = revelations. These two causes, brought into high relief with all of 'Roosevelt's undeniable 'dramatic 'skill, have sufficiently - inflamed -the public mind to damn all railroads in the country." But all this reminds us of the Brahmin in India' who smashed the microscope because it revealed to him the impurities of the water he- was drinking. If there had been no erimial practicés indulged in by (the : railroad magnates, President. Roosevelt could have made no damaging disclosures. MINERAL OU PUT OF CANAD Ats a recent isting of 'the McGill Mining Society, Dr. Krank D. Bdlams, 'Logan Professor. of Geology at this: University. delivered an interesting address on the subject of the undeveloped mineral resources of the Don h | twenty, years the mineral output. | had increased from a the million Tr ei da de BL EE AS