He has no taste for ordinary diversions, except driving.
Philip D.Armour, who has the appearance of a prosperous farmer, was born on a farm near Watertown, N.J.He became fired with a desire to see the "Boundless West." His mind seemed to run to hogs, and with a financial instinct he made up his mind that there was a fortune in transporting the hogs from where they were so plenty to where there were so few of them and so many to eat them.

He could now purchase every hog in the world and then have money left to buy a railroad or two.
Mrs.Hetty Green is probably the richest woman in the world.

Her fortune has grown from the little industry of her father in New Bedford, Mass.
She has raised the nine millions left her by her father and nine millions left her by her aunt to thirty millions.

She is a woman of great ability and courage.

She once took with her five millions of dollars of securities in a satchel on a street car to deposit with her banker on Wall street.
The probabilities are that billionaires will be as plentiful in the twentieth century as millionaires are to-day, through hard work, self-denial, rigid economy, method, accuracy, and strict temperance, for not one of the self-made millionaires are intemperate.