Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 June 1897 — Page 2

THE DALLY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTEE, UNDIAJNA

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JOHN l). rtOCMiFELLER DRAWN FROM LIFE BV CLARE AXGKLU

»OII\ n. THM KI'FF.l.I.KH LEADS THE AVOliLD 1A KAI'ID MOAEV MAKINU.

NOW HAS $244,000,000.

fn llio First Tlirre Months thr Ills** j fu Standard Oil Cert I Unites lias I it «* r«*n Hril Ilia \\«*altli b> - 0,000,000. NEW YORK, —A two-Uno paragraph on the financial page of a morning newspaper makes this annoancement: “Standard oil certlfleates

yesterday sold for 300, the highest price yet reached." There may not seem to be anything wonderful in that, hut, nevertheless. It means that in the past nine months one man’s fortune has grown Just $r,r>. 000,000 and In the oast three months Just $20,000,000. Afrndlion dollars is a stupendous sum. but when it comes to adding $20,000,000 to one’s fortune In three short months it is an achievement beyond the comprehension of the ordinary mortal, who finds it a Herculean task to make a bare living. The little paragraph had a still more potent meaning, and that Is that the wealth of John I>. Rockefeller has now reached the sum of $24-4,000.000, and. furthermore, is increasing at the rate of $1,500,000 a month, or $50,000 a day, or $2,083 an hour, or $3-1.50 a minute, or 57 cents every second of time, day and night, Sundays and

holidays.

John D. Rockefeller sleeps eight and nnc-half hours every night, retiring at 10.30 and rising at 7. Every morning when lie gets up he is $17,705 richer than he was when he went to bed. He sits down to breakfast at 8 o’clock and leaves the table at H.30. and In that short half hour his wealth has grown $1,041.50. On Sunday he goes to church, and In the two hours that he Is away from home his riches have I grown $4.16(5. His nightly amusement j Is playing the violin. Every evening ' when he picks up the Instrument he! Is $50,000 richer than he was when he laid It down the previous night. These little facts give some Idea of the relentless growth or this man's

fortune.

The average great millionaire Is content if his wealth is so Invested that it will bring in 4 per cent. Many are content with 3 per cent. But the Rockefeller riches earn more than 7 per cent. That part of It Invested In the Standard Oil Company earns 12 per cent., based upon a $300 value of the shares. The par value of the certificates Is $100, and they are now paying dividends at the rate of 36 per rent, per annum. The belief that they will soon pay 40 per cent, is the cause of their recent appreciation. Just how Mr. Rockefeller's fortune Jumped $20,000,000 In three months Is easily explained. He owns 500,000 shares of the Standard Oil Company, or a trifle more than one-half of the total capitalization. The par value of these is $50,000,000. In February last the certificates were sold at $200. At this figure his holdings were worth $130,000,000. To-day, at 300, they are worth $150,000,000. Last August Standard oil certlfleates were sold at $UK( At this figure ids holdings were worth $05,000,000, or $55,000,000 less than they are to-day. Jay (lOiild achieved world-wide fame as a money-maker. When he died lie left $72,000,000, and the world stood aghast at the wonderful achievements of the man—$72,000,000 In forty years, almost $2,000,000 a year! But here Is a man whose wealth has grown at the rate of $6,000,000 a mouth, and the outside world scarcely dreams of It; a man who earned his first quarter of a dollar hoeing potatoes ou a Tioga County far in. In the upper part of this State; a man who thirtyfive years ago did not have $1,000 to

his name.

Some people say that money Is not made as easily or as rapidly nowadays as It used to be. This may l>e true as far as the generality of money-makers are concerned, but the chosen few, of which Rockefeller is the premier, are

The Csar of Russia enjoys a trifie larger income than Victoria, but officers of the court attend to the spend-

ing of it.

But no one dictates tin* disposition of the Rockefeller income. He can invest it in interest-bearing securities, give it away to Baptist churches and colleges, or build floral timepieces in the gardens of ills Tarrytown palace. There Is one Important question eon-

8IE OF ALL ICES

JtXE IS THE WEDDIXG MONTH

MAN V STR ANGE ( LIMES.

settles down for a long wait. It may be days before the unsuspecting maiden strays away from the village In his direction. Finally, when she does, he sneaks up behind her and lands a heavy blow on her head with his war club. The true art In dellv- • ering this Mow is to knock the victim senseless without killing her. If the warrior Is unscientific and kills her he gives a grunt and slips away. If. ' on the other hand, she Is rendered merely senseless, he lifts her on his shoulders and c arries her until she regains consciousness. Then she Is made I to walk and do the bidding of her husband and master. | The native Australians, until quite recently, employed a custom quite similar to the above In bride winning. The advent of the English and of civilization eliminated many of the rude social methods, and now the Australian maiden is won in a more orthodox fashion. One of the former customs was particularly hard on the belles of the villages. A young lady who had more than one suitor was seized by the applicants for her hand, and a tug-of-war ensued. If there were four suitors one seized hold of one arm, a second took the other arm. a third caught up a foot and the fourth took hold of the other foot. In the ensuing struggle the young lady was frequently maimed for life, for tlia struggle often lash-d for a considerable time after the prize had lost consciousness from the acute

pain.

In New Zealand a modification of this exists to-day. When the groom comes to claim his bride her relatives and friends rally about her. his rela lives and friends gather around him. and the two forces come together in mimic warfare. Playful blows are struck, there is much wrestling and screaming, until the groom finally catches hold of the bride, and his supporters hurry her away from her relatives. Then all meet again, in happiness and contentment. A relic of the mairlage-hy-oapture custom is also cherished In Turkestan, and tlie people make of it a brilliant cavalry pageant, with the bride as the

principal feature.

! *)u a horse gorgeously caparisoned, ami attended by brothers, relatives and friends, she dashes off at full ! speed, and, after she lias gained a consideralile start, the groom, on a fleeter h"t-se and attended by a number of

j friends, begins the pursuit.

Tlie chase leads around a great dr- | cle. so that those on foot can see the | sport. Gradually the bridegroom

If he accepts her proposal, he ! ‘.'"T* "ZT a " <1 "':'l rer ; fln<, th .^ 1,ttle promptly eats tlie token of affection. £ nde ’ « »lng ns ride her galloping and they are thereby made man ami tutate, often reins him in slowly, out of wife. There Is no further ceremony, I to , rn * , m 1 f nt . t° , * le groom. At last, and no witnesses an* necessary. In i " 't* 11 ! S , 0 I* raptured, the briiliaut the net of eatiug alone this most primi- e ”' a , e rides to the new home, tive marriage rite consists. j w here there Is great feasting. But if, on the contrary, the youth 1 ,.’' Jn011 * ,Ilnu . v °t I* 10 older nations

CAMPF1KK SKETCHES.

GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS.

The Story of h Spy How the Miftftiug Man'M Heath Wa* l*rove»l Thirty-Four Vearii After He \Vat» Shot in Hattie Other Sketched.

ever. Where in tlie history of the world did any man ever make $55.000,000 In nine months? The hick of the bonanza kings of early California days dwindles to pigmy proportions compared with It. Nothing like it

has no mind to enter the esta'te of i * he nia " 1n »' e ceremony includes some matrimony with tlie proprietor of the! form . 0 ^ custom emblematical of the

— - — • ■- MiiMT-itr tit * vre nr- virnnTiwr' i proffered stick, he merely assures her— j 81ll >Jugation of the wife to neeted with the fabulous growth of PAINFUL WAYS OF WOOING, with a fine consideration for her feel- ! ' he h,ls,,atl(l - 111 Bulgaria kicking the this man's fortune, ami that is—What j ings not always shown In civilized j 81111 oxls,s as I >ar t of the wedding will it amount to in the next twenty j | countries—that that particular kiml of | c ' ere,nnn > - but " here It was formerly years, should Mr. Rockefeller live that I The June bride is not altogether the candy is not to his taste; and with b, 'utal kick, energetically delivered, long? product of society and civilization, al- that the whole matter is at an end. I 1 * 18 uow uothing more than a nominal though it would seem ttiat all June She, presumably, goes contentedly Performance. A hundred years ago, Among all the stories on his grand- brides must be gowned In silks and away to offer her rejected candy ami not olll . v ,lll l the groom kick the bride, father. \\ illiam Henry Harrison, the satins, garnished with orange blossoms affections to some more appreciative I h 11 * a11 llls relatives to a remote deone that ex-l’resldeut Harrison enjoys and Jewels, deluged with gifts and youth, by whom'It may be speedily : K rv< ‘ were entitled to give her one kick the most is that which relates to an treated with all the conventionalities devoured; and everybody must feel each, and often It was a month or Incident at a drawing room held by of polite life. June, however, is Just ! satisfied that no unnecessary time or , ore before the unhappy girl recovMrs. Madison at the White House in as much the wedding month In primi-j trouble has been wasted over these j er c<l from the injuries. Now the bride1813. It was shortly after the battle tive Burniah, in savage South Africa, unsuccessful matrimonial negotiations. K roon t merely goes through the perof tlie Thames, and (Jeneral Harrison, in blistering Egypt, in far-off Turke- June Is generally a painful month formanee; lie kicks at her playfully, the hero of Tippecanoe, was the most stau, in chilly Norway, or frosty Hus- to the maidens of those countries 1 1,ut bts foot does not touch her. talked of man in Washington. A lady sia, as it is in these United States, but where the ancient custom of seizing 1 ,n many of the Italian provinces a. of great beauty and high connections the bride and groom do not start upon a bride with force still survives. i u somewhat similar custom exists. One said to the President: the matrimonial sea under the same portions of Africa, particularly where 1 the bride's slippers is removed and) “General Harrison lias received my ! conditions. antagonistic tribes occupy adjoining llantl, ' t l 1° the bridegroom, who give* commands to meet me here this even-1 In Burniah. for instance, matrimony countries, the custom thrives. When- j her a light tap on the shoulder. In inB-" is signalized by its simplicity and com- ever an African warrior finds himself the South of France, among the peas"But that he cannot do," said the plete lack of fuss and commotion. In need of a wife he takes a war club antry, the bride’s shoe is merely handPresldent, "because he left Washing-1 Here It would appear to he upon the and stealthily Journeys to the viclnitv cd t0 the bridegroom, as a token of her ton this morning, starling from this dusky lady that the pleasing duties of of a neighboring village. He secretes subjection,

very house with his horse and attend- courtship devolve. She sees a youth himself in

ants, and must now be some forty whom she deems calculated to make j where he can watch the people, ami I The lives of some people are open miles on his way to the West.” 'her happy, and forthwith offers him then he picks out some young girl books; the lives of others blank 1

"Still. I laid my commands upon'a stick of candy. ' -

him," said the lady, "and he is too gal-

lant a man to disobey me.”

Somewhat nettled. Madison replied: “We shall see, madame. whose com-

mands he obeys.”

The words hud scarcely left his lips when the door oi>eued and In walked General Harrison and his staff. Madison frowned and turned away, while her ladyship laughed in triumph.—

New York Press.

I Japan Is one vast garden, and as you look over the fields you can Imagine i

the brush in a position j an watch the pi—’ - - ■

eks out some y

j who has struck his fancy. Then he ' books.—Selected.

CAPTURING THE BRIDE IN TURKESTAN.

piling up riches to-day faster than ,lmt ,h ey are covered with toy farms

where the children are playing with j tlie laws of nature and raising samples : of different kinds of vegetables and | grains. Everything Is on a diminu- | tive scale, and the work is as fine and accurate as that applied to a Cloisonne

was ever heard of among the diamond ' vase - " hat would an Illinois or an mine princes of South Africa. \v n u i Iowa farmer tliink of planting his corn.

Street or Lombard Street furnish no parallel. The histories of the financiers of Europe, or of the potentates

wheat, oats and barley In bunches and then, when it is three or four inches high, transplanting every spear of it In

of the East, could be ransacked with- ) r,>w8 about as far apart as you can

out unearthing its duplicate.

Rockefeller’s wealth is not all locked up in tlie Standard Oil Company 11.* has nearly n solid $100,000,000 Invested In many enterprises of vast magnitude. In real estate he has tied up $15,<xmi000; In Steamship lines. $2,000,000; in Iron mines, $15.000,06o; | n railroad stocks and bonds, $25,000,000; in bank stock. $8,000,1)00; In natural gas stock. $4,000,000; in manufactured gas stock $3,000,000; lu mines In Western States! $5,000,000; in Government bonds ami miscellaneous securities, about $12,000,1)00, and In cash, about $2,000 000 All of the figures Just given are approximate, as the securities are constantly fluctuating, mid the Incessant flow of income necessitates new investments. A total estimate, however of $244,000,000 can be regarded as com servatlve. His fortune may be greater by $10,000,000, but It Is 'hardly less

than the figure Just given.

This places John 11. Rockefeller at the head of the millionaires, not only of tills country, hut of the world \t one time It was said that LI iluiig Chang was worth $500,000,000. but this

stretch your fingers? A Japanese fanner weeds his wheat fields just ns a Connecticut farmer weeds his onion bed, and cultivates liis potatoes and barley with as much care as a Long Island farmer bestows upon tils asparagus and mushrooms or his flowers.—Wash-

ington Star

Southey's story is of a tame fox at Bridgewater, which had been brought up from a cub to run in the wheel as a turnspit. One day. however, his vagationd instincts proved too much for him, and lie determined to take a holiday. The fleshpots of his Egypt were a dust and ashes to his palate compared with the chickens of his own selection. Unfortunately he chose the hunting season for his excursion, and ; soon came in contact with his heredi- j tary persecutors. He evidently determined to give them a good run, for he took them twice through a stream, after a grand circumbendibus, which Involved a chase of nearly thirty miles; he made liis way back with hounds in full cry, and re-entering the kitchen, I

resumed operations in the wheel with

was proven a great exaggeration, tlie I as much unconcern as though he hpd | noted ( liiuanian not owning property 1 never left it. The fat cook, with whom -* ” 1 fie was a great favorite, succeeded In '

beating the hounds off till the arrival of the huntsman, who humanely assisted In saving a life, which. If sagacity and ingenuity be virtues, well deserved to be spared.—English Illus-

trated Magazine.

wurth one-fifth of that sum.

None of the potentates of the world has the fortune or the income of Mr Rockefeller. Queen Victoria receives $2,00(l.0<x) a year, about one-ninth of the income of Rockefeller, and out of this sum she must spend $l,7(X),t)00 to maintain the court. She doesn't even

have the pleasure of spending It,either; The greatest difficulties lie where we tno Government performs that duty. ( art* not looking for them.—Goethe. I

A Hero. E was perfectly certain. he always

said

(And story books must be true!) That somewhere over the meadows led To the den of a robber crew. So adown the lane t\ i t h liis su.e I and shield. One beautiful summer day. Anti over the fence to the buttercup

field

He merrily took his way. And he laughed ho! ho! as lie went along. And put on his fiercest looks. And he made up a kind of a battle song. As they do in the story books. But the dragon that lived In the buttercup field. And guarded the robbers' den, Came up and sniffed at his sword and shield. And opened its mouth—and then, So somebody tells me, this brave little

mar.

(Oh. sad to relate, hut true!) Dropjied helmet and all, turned tall and

run,

At the sound of that terrible "Moo!" Still, robbers there must be left to fight. And dragons there are, no doubt; And It's glorious fun if the weather Is bright, And—there aren't any cows about! The Story of a Spy. Here is a short story from the Chica-go-Times-Herald that it has taken history thirty-six years to write. At the beginning of the great civil war, in 1861, Samuel W. Kenney, a Pennsylvanian by birth, was engaged in business in Pulaski, Tenn. He owned a farm of 231 acres near that pLttC 1 *, and had $3.0C0 worth of cotton stored there. He was a strong Union man, and the southerners burned his cotton and made it impossible for him to live among them. A mob attacked his house, and he and his family, after hiding several days in the woods,made their way northward and went to their old home in Pennsylvania. In Spetember. 1862, Kenney Joined the command of General James S. Negley at Pittsburg, and entered active service as a spy. He went to Louisville, and thence entered the Confederate lines. He was recognized and betrayed by one of his old Tennessee neighbors, and was arrested by Bragg’s forces at Lynchburg. From this point Samuel W. Kenney disappeared. His family knew that he had been captured and believed that he had been executed, but proof of that fact was unobtainable. In 1867 Mrs. Kenney left Pennsylvania and removed to Dwight, 111., where she has resided ever since. Two sons, nowgrown to sturdy manhood, live in Chicago. Twenty years ago they made an attempt to obtain a pension for their mother, but failed, because the department records at Washington did not show that the missing spy of 1862 had been regularly enlisted, and there was no proof of his death. Quite recently, however, Congressman Woodman of this city found in the war department an unofficial refererct to the execution of a northern spy named Kenney at Tuilahoma, Tenn., Feb. 13. 1863. This proof was regarded as sufficient, and a pension has just been granted to the aged widow in Dwight. Last week Alexander Kenney and his brother John went to Tennessee to difciver, if possible, any further facts about the fate of their father. They visited Tuilahoma, and were most hospitably received by the town officials. It was suggested by the mayor that an aged woman who had lived in the place ever since the war might know something about the death of the northern snv. and she was visited. “There were only four men killed in Tuilahoma during the war," she said positively. "Three of them were confederates. and they were buried in the town cemetery. The other one was a spy. who had been caught by Bragg's men. I saw them take him out of the jail and put him into a wagon, and saw him sitting on a coffin. They drove away with him, and I heard that he had been hanged, but I don't know where." “Can you remember the name of that spy?" asked one of the Chicagoans. "Yes.’’ she replied slowly, "his name was Kenney." But this seemed to be as far as the search could be carried. There were no town records which would throw light upon the matter, and no additional facts ould be learned. Returning to the railway station the two Chithe railway agent, Archibalt Smith cagoans fell into conversation with and incidentally mentioned their mission while waiting for a train. "Well, boys, I’m sorry for you ’’ he said, "but I guess I can help you some I saw your father hanged. I was onlv twelve years old then, and the sight was stamped upon my mind indelibly for I was scared nearly to death Be sides, the body was buried on my father’s farm, and for many years afterward I used to shudder and run as fast as I could whenever I had to nass the spot.” p 88 The trio, led by the southerner quickly passed through the little town’ and Just outside the suburbs, on the northwestern side, a bait was made. They hanged your father to that sycamore tree there by the spring ” *ald t..e guide. His body was buried

about half-way up that hill over there, and the grave wasn't marked. You'll never find It now.” But the two Chicagoans went over every foot of the hillside. A recent freshet had washed away part of the hank and undermined the hill so that part of the ragged edge gave way beneath the feet of Alexander Kenney, and he saw protruding from the bank the two lower leg bones of a skeleton. The spy who disappeared thirty-four years ago had been found. The remains were brought to Chicago and interred in the family lot ip Dwight.

The Siege of Gnlvestnn. E. S. K. asks information as to Inch dents at the siege of Galveston. i, Was there any vessel of the Union fleet that escaped capture at the siege o! Galveston? 2. Did the captain of such vessel refuse to cross the bar when ordered to do so the night before? 3. Was the captain punished? If so, In what way? What was the captain’s name? Also the name of the vessel and officers, engineers and crew, if you can obtain them? Answer: Through the courtesy of the chief clerk of the navy department at Washington, D. C., we are enabled to give the following facts: 1. It appears from examination of the records at the navy department that the Clifton, commanded by Lieutenant Commander R. L. Law; the Owasco, Lieutenant Commander Wilson; the Sachem, Acting Master Johnson, and the Corypheus, Acting Master Spears, all escaped at the siege ol Galveston and proceeded to New Orleans. The Westfield was blown up, In consequence of which the commanding officer. Commander W. B. Renshaw, and the first lieutenant, Charles W. Zimmerman; the chief engineer W. R. Greene, and eight or ten men lost their lives. The Westfield was blown up to prevent her from falling into the hands of the enemy; the explosion being premature, the loss ol life was the consequence of the accident. 2. There is no account of any commanding officer refusing to take his vessel across the bar when ordered to do so the night before, and consequently no punishment administered to any officer, as referred to in inquiry No. 3. The facts in relation to the capture of Galveston. Tex., on the 1st of January, 1863, are elicited by the testimony before the Court of Inquiry. See report of secretary of navy, 1863, page 312. The naval force In possession consisted of the Westfield, Clifton, Harriet Lane, Owasco, Sachem and Corypheus. It seems that the night previous to the attack information had been received by the commanding officers of both land and naval forces that such an attempt might be made. At 1:30 a. in. on the 1st of January, it being bright moonlight, two or three rebel steamers were discovered in the bay above by the Clifton. The Westfield, from the other channel likewise made the same discovery. The naval forces, therefore, were not taken by surprise. After the death of Commander Renshaw, Lieutenant Commands! Law being the commanding officer, he proceeded to cross the bar with his vessels and concluded to abandon the blockade altogether, considering the Owasco as his only efficient vessel.— New York Ledger.

Modern Body Armor. The experiments with bullet-proo, coats and material which have beet conducted here and abroad have called attention to the fact that mail protection did not entirely pass away with the shelving of the shield and cuirass says the Boston Post. Many English officers still wear a partial armor when serving on foreign stations. The commonest and most usual type of these protections consists of fine but beautifully tempered single chains, inclosed in soft leather, which runs along the shoulders, down the outer side of the arms and over certain parts of the body. These can either be sewed Into a particular tunic or they can he adjusted separately and put on like harness. Hundreds upon hundreds ol these sets are sold. The most valuable of all chains In connection with accouterments are those which guard the head and In cases where the regulation cap or helmet is not sufficiently protected in this way specially made chains are sewed Inside the same and covered by the lining. Only those who have been in actual conflict know how valuable all the chains mentioi ^ are In minimizing fleet* of H.‘- « cuts. As ; protection from sword and bullet the general belief nowadays seems to be in thoroughly tanned leather and great quantities are made for officers, the favorite pattern—said to be the invention of the late Sir Richard Burtonbeing that which forms a not-too-prominent ridge down the center of the chest. Many stories are told by officers of bullets which have been averted in gome degree by these leather tunics, some of wTiich are lined with woven steel wire. Of course none ot these things are supposed to he an absolute protection, but only a sort ol palliative. A London gunsmith, who shows a great many chain body protectors, W’hlch fit almost like an ordinary vest and are very expensive, sells a iargs number of them to army men and ht not long ago sent a gross, as many as he could get made In the time, to Japan, where they were quickly sob He has made for individual officer who have themselves drawn the d* sign a variety of different patterns o armor. Fine flexible chains and leath er have entered into nearly all 0

them.

A French I’hrase. Nell—Miss Bjone uses French phra 5 ' 1 * In the most peculiar manner. B p!1 ' Does she? Nell—Yes, indeed! Why at breakfast yesterday I asked her ho" she liked her eggs, and she said the! w-ere very chick.—Philadelphia K e(>

ord.