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than sixty years ago two boys were born about twenty miles and three years apart in the State of Wisconsin. They were destined to be thoroughly American boys, but the parents of both were born in Ireland. One became Lord Shaughnessy, the head of the Canadian Pacific, and the greatest power for good to-day, both in war and peace, in the northern half of the North American continent. The other was Edward L. Doheny, lord of oil in the southwest of North America. Shaughnessy and Doheny, although born in the same State and so near each other, and of parents from the Emerald Isle, never met until within a year. Yet for many years Shaughnessy had watched Doheny's progess in the Southwest, for Shaughnessy wants oil in the future for one hundred Canadian Pacific ships.

I pen these lines in absolute independence of both, for if they had any power over me or any knowledge that I am writing this, the full limit of censorship against any personal encomiums