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The Philipsburg mail., 1899-04-14
EUROPE'S ART TREASURES,
Our Millionnires Buying the Best Of
the Old Worlds store.

Our Millionnires Buying the Best Of
the Old Worlds store.
The importation Of foreign antiques
for rich Americans increases every
year. The custom house officials will
tell you so, and the bric-a-brac col
lectors echo the assertion. What with
their fortunes and their determination
to own what is best, our millionaires
so far outbid all ambitious European
buyers at the sales that by and by
very few of the really good antiques
enplifcatiOn OF this was a recent in
teresting duel played between Lord
Rosebery and Mr.. Berwind Of New
York over a desk of richest inlay once
used by Napoleon. Lord Rosebery is
q rich man, but the American capped
every bid till the earl could not follow
his rival, and reluctantly let the desk
go. The other collectors felt, as Lord
Rosebery asserted, that the Americans
are grasping everything. Benjamin
Cable, the wealthy eX-congressman,
who is preparing to build in Washing
ton copy of Partisan hotel of the
Louis XIV. period, has purchased for
its interior adornment perfect ex-
ample of the Louis Quinze decoration
in Venice. Though he buys this great
Venetian palace, he proposes to use
half of it only. All the inside walls
will be carefully sliced out, brought
over and applied to the Washington
house. Mr.. Gable is not experiment.
ing; old Dutch and English houses,
Flemish ceilings and English stair
ways are brought over whole or in
part every year.
TO propose to her husband that she
would like to import a palace is no
unusual whim. Mrs. Forbes Leith
whose husband is one of the great
western steel manufacturers, procured
the walls, stairway and floor for the
hall in her splendid house on Park
avenue, in New York, from the home
Of Dutch nobleman. Our wealthy
ambassador to Italy, Gen. Draper, has
purchased magnificent room in the
famous Borghesi palace in Rome. His
purchase includes not only the tapes
tries and furniture in it, but the floor,
ceiling, wall, doors, window easements,
chandelier and fireplace J. J. Van
Allen, in his Elizabethan house in New
port, has imported room after room
for the lovely mansion, as he was able
to find what he wanted in Elizabethan
houses abroad and could arrange to
purchase. So far as the interior shell
OF the house goes, 1t is as genuine and
as old as Charlecote park itself. This
is all perfectly done. because there are
men in Europe who understand to
nicely the art of dismantling ancient
buildings. packing all the parts and
setting them up again. while as to the
price, our millionaires are able to at
tend to that.
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is NEAR TO EMPEROR.
MENZEL, ART ADVISER TO WILL
LIAM OF GERMANY.
He Has Long Been Ono Of the Most
Notable Figures In Europe - He Is
the Great Historical Painter of the
Empire.
(Berlin Letter.)

Herr Adolf Menzel. who has become
the special adviser in matters of art to
Emperor William OF Germany, is one
of the most notable figures of Europe.
He is par excellence the historical
painter of Germany. Through him
every child In that country knows the
faces Of Frederick the Great and the
great Emperor William, the two hero
monarchs of the Teutons. Although
he is now 81 years old, the great paint
er is keen of wit, brilliant of eye, and
sound Of judgment The kaiser could
have no finer or ADLER critic to prompt
his imperial taste in art. The eight
ieth anniversary of Menzel's birth was
celebrated elaborately at Berlin. The
emperor prepared most delightful
surprise for the aged painter. When
Menzel entered the room in which the
big reception was held he was met by
six enormous soldiers dressed in the
uniform of the time of Frederick the
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kept them in school and taught them to
be industrious and saving. Their tasks
at the family woodpile and in the lit
tie garden were uot many, but the
mother saw to it that each boys work
was regularly performed.
One of the farmers, for whom the
young Rockefellers occasionally work
ed on a Saturday, said: 1--WE always
looked on Will Rockefeller as smarter
than John, and liked him better, too
If Will had piece of work to do he'd
pitch right in and get through 1t as
quick as he could, but John would sit
down and spend half the time figur-
ing out the easiest way before he be-
gan. We always thought he was a
little too lazy to make much of a far
mer.
II don't know that it was exactly
laziness. either. When he tackled a
thing he always stuck to it until it
was finished. 1t was more of case
of counting the chickens before they
batched with him. We reckoned If
he was to be farmer he'd spend so
much time figuring up his yield of
wheat that the season would pass be-
fore he got it sowed."
John d. Rockefeller was slow but
sure. He never went into thing un-
til he could see the end of it. Then
he worked for that end, steadily and
with dogged persistency, until it was
accomplished.
The Rockefellers were poor; not
poor with the poverty of the, city ten
ements-they had enough to cat and
clothes to wear-but there were few
luxuries in their little home. The
boys were glad to do days work for
one of the ne:ghboring farmers when
they got the opportunity. For this
they received the prevailing pay for
boy labor-25 cents day.
At present Mr.. Rockefeller's income
is not less than $4,000 per day. From
25 cents to $4,000 is long jump.
As soon as John and William had
finished with the district school they
began to attend the Owego academy.
After the boys had been two years
in the village school their father sud-
denly decided to remove to Cleveland,
O. After their removal to Cleveland
the Rockefeller boys spent one year in
a business college located there, and
then John D. carried out his cherished
design to enter business.
The firm of Rockefeller & Hewitt
was formed and began warehouse
and produce business. Here in a dingy
old building John D. Rockefeller be-
gan business career which is without
parallel. From the beginning he acted
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HAVANA COW MUST GO,
Crusade Against the Housing of Cattle
In Dwellings.

The sanitary authorities have begun,
as predicted some weeks ago, the cru
sade against the housing of cattle in
dwelling places throughout the city
of Havana. Several hundred head of
milk cows were driven from residences
along the Prado the finest section of
the city, and the majority OF these
were sold by their owners. The lowest
price paid was $3.50 per head, and the
highest $210. These figures will seem
enormous to American dairymen and
farmers, who are able to purchase good
milk cows for $40 each, but when the
cost Of good beef is q cents per pound,
and the price of milk $3.50 gallon, the
prices here are taken into considera-
ton, the rate is not excessive, Amer
leans who have been obliged to pay
IL centavos per glass for milk here
are still wondering how the poor live.
The latter do not drink sweet milk,
that is certain. The purchasers of
the cows removed from residences in
tend to take them into the country,
where there is abundant pasture The
fodder formerly supplied them was the
coarsest kind Of grass. more like young
cornstalks than anything else, and this
fodder was fed to the cattle in stalls.
They were not given beds to lie upon,
and from standing and lying on the
cold stone floors of their stables the
majority contracted sores on hoof and
body, and could scarcely walk when
taken by the attendants to the drink
ing place, generally at the rear of the
stable. The American authorities have
the blessing Of the Cuban cattle, II
they haven't that of the Cuban senior.
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HOW NINE. SEMBRICH WORKS.
Said to Play Chopin Better Than Any
One Except Psderewski.

One Except Psderewski.
"But for years l have continued my
studies as singer" she said to the
Philadelphia Times reporter. II still
practice one hour every day at the
piano and devote the same amount of
time to singing. That hour, how
ever, divide into four parts and sing
for only fifteen minutes at time.
That is the history of my musical stu
dies. 1t is most impossible to say
when they begin. My fingers were on
the piano keys long before they could
stretch an octave. My studies have
not ended yet, and I cannot tell when
they will The person who would
continue to keep place in music must
always struggle to improve. 1t is not
enough to keep up to ones own stand
ard. There must be constant effort at
something better" Nine. Sembrich
confines most of her hygienic efforts to
pedestrianism. The weather permit
ting, she walks daily for two hours.
Even when she sings, if the weather is
clear, Nine. Sembrich never misses her
walk. In diet she avoids sweets and
pastry, all cold drinks and never
touches coffee. She is most careful
about talking on the day she is to
sing, but is less strict in this respect
than some of the other singers. She
receives nobody on the day she is to
sing and will accept no invitations for
the day before. Like all great sing
ers. she Is necessarily alone much of
the time. Nine. Sembrich is a fine
pianist and is said by some critics to
play Chopin better than anybody else
before the public except Paderewski.
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MRS SING LEE AND CHILD.

MRS. SING LEE AND CHILD.
er. The husband Of Mrs. Sing Lee is
a Chinese-sleek, fat, yellow skinned,
almond-eyed, cat-footed, detestable-
just a common Chinese cook with
blouse and queue, who earns $40
week So weeks in the year over the
saucepans in a boarding house. Seven
years ago Mrs. Sing Lee had never
seen Chinese outside Of a picture
book
Seven years ago she was Hedwig
BrOssok, rosy-cheeked, fair-haired
Deutsches maedchen fresh from con-
vent. She had spent all her life from
the time she was three till she was 16
years old within convent walls, and
she was just come home to her father,
a well-to-do brewer in the province of
Pomerania, and to her young step
mother. II always feel happy-my
heart SO light sing, | dance, l laugh
call 1.-THE butterfly or the humming
bird" she says of herself then. But
the stepmother and the daughter from
the convent somehow didn't hit it off
we'll together, and the father, after the
fashion of men, agreed with the step
mother Then Hedwig Brossok, with
no more knowledge Of the world than
the gentle sisters who have forsworn
it could teach her, ran away to Amer
lea. And-as the way was SO long and
there was peace in his household-her
father let her go. And now Hedwig
Brossak, as Mrs. Sing Lee, lives Chi
nee fashion," In a chill cubby-hole on
Waverly place, between Sacramento
street and Clay, and when the day is
fair she watches from her windows
the people Of her race going back and
forth on the cable cars. They never
come her way and she never goes
theirs. 1t is long way from con-
vent in Pomerania to an alley in Chi
natown.
You would like to know" said
Hedwig Brossak, who is Mrs. Sing Lee.
why I married Chinee. 1t was like
this: was all alone in San Francisco
no friends, nobody. l worked all
day long, from early In the morning
until late at night, and l got so tired.
and then l think, What will become of
me?' l see nothing else. The Chinee
married came every night to where |
worked and was in the kitchen and
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could secure at any price the owner
chose to ask. Rockefeller looked at.
the wells offered him. They were
promising wells, but he was not satis
fed. He did not feel perfectly certain
how they would pan out, so he went
back to Cleveland without investing.
He wasn't taking any chances.
Petroleum with all the gases in 1t
was very inflammable, and that fact
proved a bar to Its general adoption.
One of Rockefeller's acquaintances
among the Cleveland commission men
was Samuel Andrews. Andrews was
familiar with the general processes of
distilling, and believed that there was
money in the refining Of oil SO that
the inflammable gases should be sep
arated from it. He explained his plan
to Rockefeller.
The cautious young man was sat-
isfied with this. He could see big
money in it, and he got out of the
warehouse. Rockefeller and Andrews
running full blast and they built an
other. In few years they were turn
ing out 1000 barrels per day. Then
Henry M. Flagler put his money into
the business and the firm became
Rockefeller. Flagler & Andrews. They
added more refineries, bought up their
smaller competitors or drove them out
of business.
Rockefeller was the schemer Of the
firm. He laid the plans for extending
their business and destroying competi-
ton, and Flagler carried out these
plans, following Rockefeller's direc-
tions implicitly and relentlessly. An
drews looked after the refneries.
In 1870 the business Of Rockefeller,
Flagler & Andrews was merged into
the Standard Oil company, which
started out with capital Of 81, 100000.
At the age Of 81 John D. Rockefeller
had become a millionaire.
The extension of the Standard OIL
trust not only over the entire United
States, but into Russia and even into
Canada, is matter of too recent his
tory to need be more than mentioned.
Today Mr.. Rockefellers wealth is va
riously estimated at from one hundred
to two hundred millions.
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ADOLPH MENZEL,

Great. These soldiers brought their
ancient muskets to present" before
the painter. The contrast between
the uniformed giants and the diminu-
tive artist, by whose skill their uni
forms had been made familiar to
everybody, was most amusing and pa
thetic. Not long ago the Berlin
sculptor, Karl Pracht, made portrait
statue of Herr Menzel which was a
most faithful likeness of the little
man as he appears daily in the streets
of the capital. This statue has been
placed in the Berlin Academy of Fine
Arts.
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SING LEE.

talked to him. Every time he came he
brought the lady bouquet, and l said
to him. why don't you bring me
bouquet, too?' Then he brought two
bouquets every time. Once when I felt
tired and lonely he said to me he
would take care of me, that l wouldn't
need to work any more.
1.-The white people make so much
trouble. L am Catholic. beg on
my knees that the priest will marry
us. No! No! he says. But / beg and
beg, and cry and cry. l taught my
husband to be Catholic and the priest
baptized him. Then-maybe it is be-
cause of the baby, or maybe to save
my soul-he married us; but he would
not put the marriage in the book. All
the time since l was married l have
lived in Chinatown. eat Chinese
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-04-14
ON MOUNT VESUVIUS,

There are three things in Italy
every traveller aims to see-St. Peters,
the Coliseum and Vesuvius. 1t takes
three hours to reach the observatory
on top of the mountain. It is solid,
handsome structure, some three stories
high and contains museum and
various instruments, the most impor-
tant Of which is the electromagnetic
seismograph, which records the time.
extent and direction of every move
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The Proper Thing.

Your pants are bagged at both
knees" shrieked the valet, his eyes
starting from their sockets. The deep
pallor of the Person indicated that his
calmness was but superficial. Ger
tainly!" exclaimed the Person. "Why
not? Has not Wales recovered the
use of both legs?" With that he
strove to disniss the terrible suspicion
that he had perhaps been deceived by
the newspapers.
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His Clever Ruae.

Bob-"How do you stand with your
employer so well, Tom-you never
laugh at his jokes?" Tom-"No; but
I dine at the same restaurant, and,
pretending not to see him, l retail all
his stories, saying loudly: I can't tell
it so we'll as he can, but here's a rat
tling good yarn Mr.. D. told us this
morning. I've been promoted three
times this year"
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Philanthropist-"So you say you've
been we'll off once. Well, well, this is
a world of changes; it is indeed a cold
world" Needy Gent Indignantly
"Cold! 1t hain't half cold enough;
that's what broke up my business. :"
"You don't say so! What business were
you in?" 81 was a manufacturer of
skates"
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The Man Who Blunders Ahead.

The man who thinks he knows II all
And makes absurd mistakes
Gets farther than the wise man who
Refrains from things there are to do
For fear of making breaks.
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Especial Letter.)

John D. Rockefeller, now probably
the richest man in the world, spent his
boyhood in little house about three
miles out of Owego, N. Y. When he
was seven years old his father moved
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THE OBSERVATORY.

ment of the earth's surface, however
faint. From the balcony of this build
ing is obtained the best view of the
awful crater into which Sara Bern
hardt came near falling the other day.
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On the Solar PleIus,

She-Did you know that l am an
was that yor had gone on the stage"
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Dead Certain.

Ethel-How do you know that he
loves you? Elva-Oh, l know! HE
didn't tell you SO, did he?" "No; but
I had It from his own lips!"
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1t will doubtless be discovered that
the General Shafter March" is too
heavy for marching purposes.
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KING OF THE TRUSTS.
STORY OF THE RICHEST MAN
IN THE WORLD.

John d. Rockefeller, the Standard OIL
Magnate, Probably Owns That Satis-
factory Distlnction-He Was Oncc q
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Curious Bird Habits.

1t IS a well known fact that if the
young Of almost any kind of bird are
taken from the nest before they can fly
the old one will feed them most atten-
lively if the age in which the little
birds are inclosed is placed somewhere
where the parents can reach it. and a
popular but belief is curren;
that they do this for a time. and END
by poisoning the young ones.
This, however. is a mistake, the fac,
being that at a certain stage Of a young
birds existence, when it is naturally
able to begin catering for itself. the
parent birds, also quite naturally, cease
TO attend it, and then, if the birding:
are shut up in the cage and their Gus
todian has not thought Of placing some
food at their disposal they necessarily
die, not 1rom poison administered by
the parents, but from starvation. st
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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\ TREATY..
I:ow Houdin. the Magician. Awed the
Arabs into SUH,MisxtOn.

During the French conquest of Al
geriu (ls3O-le33l Negotiations for peace
were entered upon with the sheiks Of
certain Arab tribes. and Il meeting for
the settlement Of terms was arranged to
take place at the French headquarters.
The French officers received their guests
with great hospitality. and after the
banquet given in their honor. at which
the utmost splendur was employed. in
order to dazzle their eyes and captivate
their simple minds. an adjournment
was made to Il large ball. where NJ
Houdin. the celebrated conjurer. who
had accompanied the French forces
gave an exhibition of his skill.
They stared in open mouthed wonder
at all the tricks that were performed.
and a feeling Of awe crept over them as
they witnessed the mysterious appear
ance and disappearance of various OBJ
jects. But what appeared to them most
marvellous was the apparent manufac-
ture Of cannon balls NJ. Houdin passed
round among them a high hat. which
they examined very carefully. but with
put suspecting anything unusual in Ell
Their its make or its appearance. When
the hat was returned to him the on
iurer placed it on the floor in the mid.
die Of the stage in full view Of his IA
dience. He then proceeded to take from
the hat cannon balls apparently with
cut number. and rolled them across the
noor into the wings. With this the per-
Torrance terminated.
The chiefs then consulted among
themselves and came to the conclusion
that it was useless to offer any opposi-
ton to an army that could turn out its
ammunition in so easy a n They
therefore signed the required treaty and
departed to tell their friends in the
desert Of the wonderful power Of the
invaders. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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He WINS No Authority,

The New York Times relates an anec-
dote concerning Mr.. Howells that is
good enough t. be true, whether it is
or not. According to report. a dispute
as to the words lunch" and ''lunch-
on" recently arose between Mr.. and
Mrs. Howells. Mr.. Howells championed
''lunch" as the proper term. while his
wife defended luncheon" At last. at
Mr.. Howells' suggestion. they appealed
TO the Century Dictionary to settle the
question. well. l was right. after
ALL he exclaimed in triumph. and he
read aloud the following extract quoted
as showing correct usage: I'VE lunched
fairly upon little dishes Of rose leave.
delicately preserved"
From what author is that sentence
TAKEN inquired Mrs. Howells.
Why l declare. from W. D. How
els
''Pshaw." wos the retort. Hes nc
authority
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UNTO THE END.

know not where tomorrow's paths may wend,
Nor what the futur holds, but this I know.
Whichever way my feet are forced to 60.
shall be given courage to the end.
Though God that awful Cift of his may se.a
We call long life. where headstcnes In a row
Hide all of happiness, yet be 1t so;
/ shall be given courage 10 the end.
II dark the dcerenins shadows be that blend
With lite's pale sunli sht when the sun dips
low,
Though Joy speeds by and sorrows steps are
slow,
shall be given courage to the end.
lido not question what the years portend-
Or good or i'll whatever wind may blow:
1t is enough. enough for me TO know
shall be gwen courage TO the end.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Iouth'S Companion