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BIO. stion imo ning and .1 ac no H18 an: if AMERICA’S RIBHEST MAN SOME FACTS ABOUT JOHN D. ROCKE- FELLER AND HIS WEALTH. Said to Be Worth Riot-e Than $200,000,000 â€"¢.‘.|ves Large Sums In l‘harinâ€"$l0,- 000,000 to Chicago Universityâ€"[low ll Acquired His Wealthâ€"Means Employed to Crush 0pposluon. John D. Rockefeller. He is America’s richest man. Some very ugly stories are told about the methods employed by the Standard Oil Company to acquire the plants of rivals or else to drive them out of m- nees. Even arson has been mentioned. His wealth is more than $200,000,000. \Vhen a boy he had the reputation of being lazy. His colossal fortune was made of oilâ€" Standlrd 011.: . ' ' He gives away $500,000 in charities every year, it is said. He can play the violin very well, and has a fondness for pictures. His income is a trifle more than $20,- 000 a. dayâ€"nearly $17 a minute. _ He gets less real enjoyment out of life, probably. than most $12-a-week clerks. Once safely established the Rockefel- lers started out to acquire the plants of their rivals. Some were acquired by purchase, others byâ€"ot_her means. _ So successfully was this plan of busiâ€" ness campaign carried out that toâ€"day there is scarcely a rival plantâ€"prac- tically all the oil industries are in the control of the Rockefellers. In a short time the Rockefellers were near unto failure, and were rescued by Henry M. Flagier's father-in-law, M. V. Harkness. It has been said that John D. Rooke- feller gives millions to charities to atone for someâ€"well, never mind what. How- ever, the ruin of more than one busi- ness rival has, coincidentally. been fol- lowed by the gifts of thousands to some institutiOn. With this capital he started a little oil refinery. out of which grew the Standard Oil Company and his vast wealth. He pays $10,000 a year to the person who looks after the distribution of his. charities. Then he and M. B. Clark went into the commission business in St. Louis, and in eight years had saved $5,000. He looks like a preacher. He has sloping shoulders and a. melancholy He has a number of residencesâ€"one at No. 4 West Fifty-fourth street, New _YorA_k City‘;_ong in Clevgland, anpthe; in Greenfi'i'ch, Conn; and a. very hand- some place near .Tarrytown. Connected “(Nil thls house 18 a very good skating rm . His highest ambition when a young- ster was to be a trapeze performer m a. circus. He saved money from the time he first: began to earn it. In two years he had put away 8500. He is an iron king as well as an oil king; He practically owns all the Lake Superior mines, as well as the principal deposits in Cuba. During the fiannoial depression a few years ago he bought all the iron mining property in who at once ordered me to be taken to sightâ€"and at a bargain._ _ His parents were Scotch folks, who settled on a small farm near Moravia, N .Y. They moved to Oswego, and later to Cleveland. John D. Rockefeller mar- ried a Cleveland school teacher, Miss Lucy Spelhnan. They have four chil- dren. The two daughters are married. He never attends the theater or opera, but occasionally goes to a concert. He founded the Chicago University, and has given to that institution about 810,000,000. Just now Mr. Rockefeller is having a deal of trouble with his parson, the Rev. Daniel C. Potter, pastor of the Taber- nacle Bap tist Church, of New fork. Mr. Rockefeller some time ago gave to the church $50, 000. The Rev. Mr. Potter asserts that Mr. Rockefeller has wreck- ed the church because his conduct has not been such as to please the Standard Oil magnate. The case is now being tried. EMIPLOYER AND EMPLOYED. Women are forced by various exigen- cies in life to take a. very decided stand in the ranks of the great army of work- ers who battle for bread and butter. For a long time, selfish man was bitâ€" terly opposed to the supplanting of male labor by feminine help. But in the eternal fitness of things the situa- tion is now more or less accepted, with the philosophic expression that the "survival of the fittest" has proved it to be a. correct condition of affairs. It is noticeable, that women not Only sur- vive, when they take up occupations erstwhile monopolized by man, but they go to the front in science, literature, art, business. \Vith women, as with men, whatev- er must develop their talemt, honor, conscience, energies, and skill, what- ever gives him or her a higher aim and assists its realization, is of inesti- mable value Jthroughout life. The ef- forts made by an honorable employer, to raise the character and the work of his agents, conduce alike to his pros- perity and to the individual. The spir- it is too often manifest to make gain of each at the other’s expense. This is a short-sighted policy. The interests of each are in a measure identical, and the more this is realized in all busi- ness relations, the .. more harmonious and valuable becomes each integral of a business success. \Ve wonder Wheth- er the unselfishness of woman, gener- ally, has not had a great deal to do with their success? . There is a good reason for the ex- pression “barrels of money.” Old safes were made in the form of a barrel, item-bound, WLth big rings for handles and a. cover lifting with a hinge. There ’ one of German origin m the Art Museum. It is a little smaller than a flour BARRELS OF MONEY. Some Examples of People “110 [lave Been Able to Retain Things in Their Blinds. There are many historical feats of memory that sound as impossible to you and me as would an account of the gymnastics of a Japanese acrobat if we 'had not seen them. Lord Ma- caulay found when by chance he tried it. that he could repeat the whole of “Paradise Lost,” though he never tried to learn it; but then Lord Ma- caulay loved his Milton, and had read “ Paradise Lost ” many a time and oft. So what was that to the actor \Vil- liam Lyon, w'ho flourished in Edinburgh about a hundred years ago, and who one day on a wager repeated the whole of the Edinburgh Daily Advertiser for that day, from beginning to end, ad- vertisements and all. Lyon could have but a few hours at best to study the journal; the matter was characteris- tically disconnected, yet he rattled it all off without hesitation or mistake. Maigliabechi was the queer name of a Florentine, who was librarian to Cos- Sometimes these wonderful memories are gifts of nature, but some of the most wonderful have also been acquir- ed, and it is worth while to enquire how, because a great memory is awon- derfully useful thing. Houdin, one of the most wonderful conjurors that ever lived, and a man of real scientific ab- ility, performed some of his most mar- vellous tricks with the aid of a son whose memory he had trained to be miraculous. He would take the boy when he was a child past a toy shop. and then make him tell what he had seen in the window, and after awhile one glance would suffice to tell the youngster more about such! a window than other people could find out in ten minutes. In this way his eye-sight, his power of seeing much‘ accurately and quickly, was trained to be as wonder- ful as his memory. The father would write down the son’s list of objects seen and then go back and verify it, but soon one rapid walk by such a window would enable the boy to men- tion forty odd articles, and he almost NEVER DIADE A MISTAKE. One time Houdin was to give a per- formance in a private house, and when he and his son entered they were con- ducted through the library on their way to another room. Houvdin made the boy a sign to see all he could, and af- ter this brilliant performance he said to the company, “ Now, my son has sec- ond sight, and can read through the walls of a house," and with that he, des- ignating a certain shelf of books that they had previously agreed upon, ask- ed him what book stood third -from the left-hand corner. “Buffon,” the answer came quickly. “ And the one by its side '2” quickly questioned an incredulous spectator whale a messenger was dispatched to verify the first assertion. “To the right or the left 2” said the lad. “On the right,” “ The Travels of Avacharsis the Lounger,” came the prompt reply, “but if, sir, you had asked what was on the left I shOuld have answered Lamar- tine’s Poems; a little to the right of this I see Cretillon’s works, and be- low two ,volumes of Fleury's Memor- ies”â€"and thins he went on to name a dozen books. As all were found just where he said they were this was the most successful feature of the evening. It was all the outcome of a trained .eyesight and a trained memory. mo III. Grand Duke of Florence. and though he never travelled he informed himself about. ~ ALL THE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIES, in the world to such purposes, that few of those who frequented them could have known as much about them. One day the Grand Duke sent for him to ask what were the chances for buying a certain particularly rare work. “ You can never get it,” 'said the lib- rarian, “ your Higrhmess’ treasury would not buy it for you, for there is but one copy now in the world, and that is in the Grand Signor’s library at Con- stantinople, and is the seventh book. on the second shelf, on the right hand side as you go in." One day last Spring, in purchasing a lot of fowls from her marketman, 3 Brady in Philadelphia, got one little bit of a chicken that was almost too small to eat, and which made its es- cape through the wires of the coop and began to chirp and cry about the yard. The iady made no effort to re- capture the little thing, thinking it would be better off running free about the place. But it soon became evident that the chick had been too soon taken from parental} care and was totally un- able to provide for itself. Two whole days passed, during which it neither ate nor drank, though the lady tried every means in her power to provide for its welfare. The chicken simply peeped and drooped till the lady gave up all ef- forts and {left the little thing to die. who]; no doubt it would have done right speedl'ljy had it not been rescued in the following singular manner: _ It chanced that thé rlady had a. pet canary. of which she is very fond, and to which she devotes much care and attention. For instance, it is her 1n- variable custom in mild weather to turn the bird out of his cage for a certain portion of each day, fiettmg him have his bath in a sunny spot on the back porch. So that morning when the little chick- en was so nearly giving up his life for lack of food and comfort, it happened that the canary was turned out of his cage for his hour of freedom in the sun- that ho cats came aroqnd. and present-1y she saw the canary tr1-p doyvn the steps to the dawn, where the llttle chicken was crying. For a moment the two Little feathered thmgs stood and looked BO‘W TO BEAR GREAT SORROVV. MARVELLOUS MEMORIES. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, Feb. 4, 1897. at each other inqulrmlg‘lw. Then the bird ohirped and made. a. dab with its beak. The cmcken chlrped and made a dab, too, and pretty SOOn the two were chirpinghnd‘ giaobmg‘ax‘vey might- icy. What the chirps and dabs mé’ant of course we may not know, but present. 3.57 the bird came hopping ,uP the steps, the chicken fdhlowmg b€h{nd. Making his way to the cage, Wthh Sat open on the floor, the blI‘d went in, chirping and dabbing aiil the Whlle, with the chicken fohlowing after, and presently the two little friends were eating and drinking together. . . That was the beginning. of the singu- mar friendship, which continues still un- abated. The chickQI} . stayed in the bird’s cage with 1mm thd It Was too large to get in the door, and then a roost was placed for it close to the cage hook, so that they might be near each other at night. It is no uncommon Sight to see the canary throwmg seedsdown from his cage to the chicken, and 1f the chick- en finds a worm he brings it in the house and chirps under the cage tiiul the lady lets the Plrd out, .when the friends enjoy the Ieast together. QUEEN \VILHELMINE. Although: the Queen of the Nether- lands is not but sixteen years old, and the regency continwes, she is no long- e1: officially classed as a child, having been received 'into sthe church, and having dischared her preceptor and her English governess. Queen \Vilhelmina has become accus- tomed to the homage which formerly pained her greatly, since it reminded her of the death of her dearly beloved father. She has the reputation of be- ing of a somewhat regal disposition, and many stories are told of her habit of command. She is also extremely frank. Some years ago, when, in her studies, she was told about the atrocities of the Duke of Allva and the cruel policy of the Spanish monarchs toward the Neth- erlands when they were an appanage of the Spanish crown, she exclaimed in- dignantly: “If the King of Spain thinks that I shall ever invite him to my court he is quite mistaken !” Later, when she visited in England, and was asked by the Prince of \Vales What she was most impressed by in England, she answered: Her countrymen appreciated greatly a rebuke which Queen \Vilhelmjina ad- ministered to a Dutcn ambassador at a foreign court which she visited when she__ was much younger ‘than she is now. “It’s to find the English people so nice. I should. never have guessed .it from the specimens I have seen in Holland 1” “Have you any Tittle girls 2” she asked. The queen tossed her head. “Oh in that case,” she said, “pray don’t trou- ble them to come to me. I don’ t think I care to meet any young Dutch gills who cannot speak the language of their cogntry_.” _ The Dutch papers are beginning to discuss the question, “ “7th shall she marry ’5” and the matter has been men- tioned in states general. An English newspaper reports that the queen hear- ing something of this, became angry and exclaimed: The Prince laughed heartily at this response. The ambassador explained othat, as his little girls were not born in Holland, and had always lived in a foreign cogptry, they‘ cou'l_d_not_speak glitch. T‘he ambassador, much. pleased, ans- wered that he had. “I love my people, and will do almost anything to please them, but if they think they are going to have anything to_ say about my marriage, they are mistaken I” “Oh,” said the queen, “bring thgam t9 mehso that I may talk Dutch Wlth them I” Package, sir, said the agent as. Mr. Sharp calms to the .door. There 13 $2 expresga charges on _1t. Be kind enough to wait a moment, said Mr. Sharp, as he disappeared in- doors. Presen-tly he returned, Just allow me to throw this -Xra,y on that pagkage .Qlease- - The” tell-tale light revealed three bricks carefully done up in raw Cotton, and, unopened, they were returned to The two biggest fine engines in the world are in Liverpool. These are the most powerful: fire engines known, throwing“ 1,800 gallons of water a min- ute, and a jet 140 feet high. The force with which the water is ejected from them may be estimated from the fact that the jet was “warranted to kill a man at 350 feet. ‘ A London scientist has invented -a mirror of celluloid which accurately re- flects every object. The celluloid mir- ror is unbreakable, and is cheaper than glass, and lighter. Ever play :whiist with a dummy, Blinkly? " mTâ€"imés withbut number. My wife is always my partner when we ’re in the EMB. . i MIRROR MADE OF CELLULOID. wouId-be 'jokei‘, marked Refused. LARGEST FIRE ENGINES. UTILIZING SCIENCE. 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