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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-03-11

large sums similarly invested In New
England and the central west.
Two important items Of John d.
Rockefeller's fortune are frequently
overlooked in making computations OF
his wealth. These are his holdings OF
real estate and mortgages and OF gov
eminent and municipal bonds. Both are
80 vast that IL we undertook to follow
out the threads that lead to them they
would take us to every part OF the Unit
ed States and across the Atlantic.
While Mr.. Rockefeller's real estate
holdings would amount to probably
$10,00O,000, such investment does not
prove a very attractive venture for the
astute financier. He prefers to let the
other fellow own tho real estate and he
hold the mortgage. The city Of Cleve-
land Is an example Of this. He owns
valuable property there-Forest Hills
and his Tarrytown IN. W estate Is
truly baronial in It's magnificent proper
lions, but these are nothing In COM
parison to his mortgage holdings. in
Cleveland he holds 500, 900 mortgage
on the principal hotel, mortgage for
like amount on a large Wholesale bust
ness. and banking and street railway
holdings which would bring the total to
81, O00, 900 in the Ohio city alone.
But Cleveland il not the only city in
the United States that is doing q good
part of its business on John d. Rookie
feller's money and paying him well for
the privilege. New York, Chicago. Pitts
burg and Buffalo ara cases IN point.
VIII Be worlds First Millionaire.
OF Mr.. Rockefeller's holdings in gov
eminent and municipal bonds II were
idle to speculate. His benencent atten-
lions have been bestowed on other fields.
too, that are not included in any Of the
above cIassifcations, such - that Of
the big insurance companies, steamship
and telegraph and building corporations
and other things. - the department
store advertisements say. too numerous
10 mention.
Taking into account all these Wide
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dence of the thoroughness with which
the work will be done. the note of
President Roosevelt to Mr.. James r..
Garfield may be quoted. II is terse. and
businesslike: Act vigorously on the
resolution at once" And II the way
in which Mr.. Garfeld's department
has handled the beef trust investiga-
ton, and brought matters and condi-
lions before the interstate commerce
commission, which promise i'll for the
beef trust, is any indication of the
spirit and thoroughness with which
the investigation of the Standard Oil
business will be conducted, Mr.. Rookie
Teller may well begin to fidget In his
chair and recall unpleasant memories
Of how Frank s. Monnett, the attor-
ney general of Ohio, forced the
Standard to abandon its trust form
Of organization, leave the sta.e and
take refuge in its present form of a
New Jersey corporation.
Monnett Deals Standard Blow.
This will not be the first time the
Standard has been Investigated. Three
times the trust has been up before leg
islative commissions and has once
been taken before the courts. The
legislature Of New York delved into
the affairs of the monopoly in 1897,
with the Hepburn committee Con-
gress tackled It in 1883 with the
Bacon committee, and again in 1890
with the industrial commission. But
the most severe shaking up 1t has re-
ceived In its history was that given It
by Monnett, and though It was . Bit
ter pill for the Standard to swallow,
It had the grim satisfaction at the next
election of defeating Monnett for reelec-
ton a. attorney general, and forcing
him into private life.
Monnett is as familiar with the
Standard OIL business as anyone out
side Of the company itself, and KAN
sas has turned to the one man who
has given Standard . black eye.
The Ohio man Il now 1t Topeka and
will aid In the fight. He viii assist
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danger of unlawful combination will be
passed.
But however that may be, certain 1t
Is that war cloud of ominous proper
lions is arising upon the horizon of
the Standard Oil company's sky. 1t
began to gather In Kansas. that home
Of the cyclone, and has spread until
from Texas to New York and from
the Indian territory through the
prairie states of Illinois, Iowa and In
diana to the capital city on the Po-
tomac, the ominous mutterings Of the
coming storm have been heard. Had
the Standard only had to deal with the
situation in Kansas 1t would have
been the merest child's play, the most
amusing diversion. to have in time
crushed all opposition and forced the
people and the state into submission.
John d. Rockefeller has been laugh
Ing up his sleeve and serenely waiting.
II has amused him to read In the pa
pe.s that the Kansas legislature had
appropriated $4,000 for the estab-
lishioent of state refinery to buck
against his $3.50. 100000 company. He
has peen annoyed, perhaps. at the eff
tort 70 NEEDLE with his pipe lines, but
he has felt confident that the end
would come In victory for him and the
establishment Of his company In the
state on firmer basis than ever before.
He has mapped out campaign of
waiting. This great financier, this
$3.50 900. 900 money bags. can AFFORD to
wait. for his dollars work while he
sleeps, and he can keep busy banking
the $s0.O00,00O yearly income from his
tnvestments while the poor Kansans
see their $4,000 refinery q sink hole
into which to pour the wealth Of the
state and the independent producers
there brought to a state Of sub
mission where they will be willing to
make peace at Rockefeller's own
terms, and II reports are to be credited
Rockefeller's terms are never generous
except to the interests Of Rockefeller
himsslf. ~ u never satisfied, It II
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rolling Time b. the. scalee.

Il happened to Be in butcher shop mp
In Harlem the other afternoon" said
Mr.. Edward Morgan. the assistant post-
master Of New York. when In came =
woman Of ample proportions and unmis-
taxable Hibernian extraction. The
scales were the old-fashioned kind. with
. round brass dial. on which . pointer
swung around to indicate the pnundx
after she had waited some time her
eye happened to light on that dial, ana
she jumped like deer ~ she almost
shouted:
For the love o. Hiven. give me that
mate. quick. It's six O'Clock. IN. 4.
Herald.
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spread interests. II II not difncult 70
figure out that John ID. Rockefeller 10
already possessed of upward OF $780,
O0O. 900, or that, with the power which
his vast wealth gives him Of buying
cheaply when prices are at rock bot
tom and when financial stress compels
the holders of particular properties to
let them go, he will become q full
fiedged Millionaire within another ten
years. II he lives so long. Indeed. the
accumulation of his yearly income OF
$4,000, 900, or whereabouts, will carry
him to that point without any allowance
for the appreciation of the properties In
which his money is invested such as is
certain To occur.
II ono were to construct a table show
ing chronologically the growth OF Mr..
Rockefeller's fortune II would read about
as follows:
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lands; on the contrary, she handed over
e4,000,000 as part compensation to
Spain for their loss
This authority says that Japan is not
likely to exact crushing indemnity
from Russia because she is not in a
position, as was Germany, to enforce
her demands. IF she gets Port Arthur
and the Liaoyang peninsula he con-
cludes. Japan Will probably be glad
TO accept peace with a quite moderate
cash payment" Exactly what is meant
by moderate cash payment" is not
clear. 1t may mean $4,000. 600 and it
may mean s5e0. 600, OO0.
Japan has been put to considerable
expense in 4he war. The cost OF her
battleships, of fortincations and Of
maintaining great armies in the field
has been tremendous 1t is estimated
that the war is costing the MikadO
something like $500 OOO. 600 a year. or in
the neighborhood of $3.50, 900 day. And
the cost of pensions after the war for
the families of the men killed and for
those disabled viii be a considerable
and constant item.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17
PRAYERS FROM SLOT MACHINE
Remarkable Curiosity Discovered at
Thibetan Shrine.
(st. Louis Globe-Democrat.)


\ British soldier connected with the re-
cent punitive expedition to Lhassa dis
covered before a shrine in that sacred city
of the BuddhistS a singular device, which
he exultantly exhibited to his comrades
as proof of Solomon's assertion that
there is nothing new under the sun a
concrete refutation of the boast that the
drop a penny in the slot and get any
old thing machine is not the modern in
vention it is generally supposed to be.
The device he found in operation was
nothing less than q prayer wheel with a
crude automatic attachment which en-
abled a person to put a small coin in an
appointed place and the wheel would de-
liver special prayer from the Deity,
slip of paper of guaranteed efficacy IN Sc
curing the int ercessiOn of the god in his
mundane troubles if the buyer offered it
up in the usual manner and in proper hui
mility. The soldiers companions would
not accept the automatic drop coin in
the slot prayer wheel as proof of his as
sertion. claiming that the idea might have
been obtained from India by some Thtbet-
ar monk. who perchance had Strayed thus
far afield.
The soldier investigated as to the pos
sibie origin of the queer prayer wheel,
but could get little information, save that
such things had been in use for many
centuries, 50 many that history did not
tell Of their beginning. There the soldier
rested his case but the facts ne brought
back with him make another historical
truth dOubly interesting.
The modern idea embodied in automatic
devices is not modern in its fundamental
basic principle at all, a Greek, Hero or
Alexandria. having invented a similar ma
chine about the year 80 b. G. 1t was not
used for commercial purposes, however.
but was employed in the temples to en-
able devoteeS to secure small quantities
of a certain wine used in the sacrifices
! TheVenOt, royal librarian to Louis XIV OF
France, discovered an account of this
cOntrivance in some ancient Greek works
in his masters library and published a
translation of it.
According to this the machine contained
! a vase within a vase, the inner receptacle
/ filled with wine. a small rod swinging
! on an axle attached to the inner side of
! the large vase closed an Orifice in the
1 wine receptacle with a flat disk. n slot
| in the top of the outer vase was pro-
vided for the coins of a specific weight
and these were carried directly to the
| rod by a narrow metal chamber.
| The weight of the coin the rod re-
| leased the disk permitting a small guam
| tity Of the wine TO escape in the waiting
| cup beneath until the coin fell from its
| uneasy balance, when the disk swung
! back into place. The interesting cOnnec-
/ ton between this and the automatic
! PRAYER wheel in Lhdssa is that the latter
| is controlled by a mechanical device eN-
| actly similar in every respect to the
| Greek invention OF Hero, save that il
| discharges a paper prayer instead Of
! .trira
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Knew His Business.
kansas City JournalO

Pleasant Porter, governor of the
Creek Indians. pointed one day TO a
brave in paint and eagle feathers.
He doesn't look enlightened. does
he?" said Governor Porter Yet he
can read Virgil and Horace in the
Latin and Homer and Theocritus in the
Greek. and once he wrote a sonnet that
a leading New York magazine printed
and paid 81 for
Enlightenment, said Governor
Porter. smiling. ''is everywhere. One
day l visited an apple farm. The
farmer and his sons were filling barrels
with apples. They put the big apples
I'm the bottom of the barrels and the
little ones on top. I thought that this
was a place that enlightenment had
not struck. and I said:
NY good old friend, don't you
know it is unwise and unusual TO put
the big apples in the bottom and the
little ones on topg
q" Yes said the farmer. but these
city chaps is gettin' so sharp nowadays
that they open all the apple barrels
from the bottom, so as to see whether
us farmers is tryin' to cheat 'em OF
not
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SOC lETY.


Mrs. Spalding. widow of the late
Bishop Spalding of Colorado, is ex-
pected in the city shortly to visit her
son and daughter. Bishop +. S.
Spalding and Miss Sarah Spalding will
shortly be at nome in the Episcopal
residence on East First South street.
Miss Agatha Berkhoel is home again
after a short visit with Miss Lillian
Durham in Bountiful. Mrs. A b.
Witcher is still there and viii not re-
turn till next week.
Mrs. L. E. Hinchman of Indianapolis
IS IN the city, the guest of her daughter,
Mrs Samuel V. Ham
Austin De Camp left Tuesday for
Idaho where he viii rejoin his survey
ing party.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Hayward enter
tanned at a dinner at the University
club last evening, in compliment to
George Townsend and Miss Kathleen
Townsend who are up from Provo at
the Wilson.
Mrs James w Neill and Miss Violet
Neil are at Monterey, Cal. for "A few
weeks and will remain there till Mr.
will return for visit with friends
here.
SIS
Mr.. and Mrs. S. +. FentOn leave to-
morrow morning for u visit to Cali
fornia, in the hope of benefitting the
health of Mrs. Fenton, who is con-
Valescing after illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isadore Mayer have
moved and are now at home at pa
Third East street.
l1ROyeyR Z
spending a few weeks on the golf links
at Hotel Del Monte, in Monterey.
Mrs. E. T. Harvey and Mrs. c. J.
Schultze will entertain the 500 Card
club at the home of the former this
afternoon.
The current events and current litera-
ture section of the Ladies Literary
club will meet this afternoon at the
club house. Mrs. J. G Kidder will
read a paper on What we are doing
in the West Indies" and Mrs. Q. c.
Dey viii review THE Masqueraders-"
Miss Rilla Snyder entertains at a
st. Patrick's day card party this even
ing.
Julian Siegel returned yesterday
afternoon from a stay of several
months in the Goldheld district in
Nevada. He will spend a few days
with his parents before they leave for
Europe.
IS
Warren Mangum left yesterday for
California where he expects to spend
the next two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley J. Paul are
settled permanently in Denver, hav-
ing returned recently from Boston, and
are at the Imperial.
Leonard E. Shoemaker left this city
yesterday for southern California.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. b. ROwlandS enter
tanned a few of their friends of the
garrison last evening in compliment to
Captain and Mrs. Z. NJ. Blake.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Presbyterian church will entertain at a
merchants luncheon today at the
church from u till 2.
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NF THE HISTORY that has been
" made by the sixth Utah legislature
which has Just completed its work, it
would be charitable TO say, with By
ron:
And what is writ is writ,
Would it were wortbier."
The work OF the Legislature that is
dead was not notable for it's brilliance.
a few good measures were enacted into
law. and some decidedly unworthy
ones. Some excellent bills were de-
feated. or so laden with restrictions as
to practically destroy their usefulness;
some bad bills. it is pleasant to be
able to say, were defeated. The aver
age of intelligence in the sixth legisIa-
ture. with special reference to the
house. was not high
The actions of the house show a de-
plorable defect in our elective system.
a very large majority of the members
were chosen solely for the purpose of
casting their votes for known can
didate for the United States senate.
The people had very little voice in
either their nomination or their cleo
ton. The machine that made Iegisla-
tors out of them made no requirements
as TO fitness, no knowledge Of the
states needs was demanded, no ability
in the line Of making or unmaking
laws We do not hesitate to saw that
there were not half a dozen men in the
house who would be selected by the
average citizen as an advisor in a mat
ter of Importance.
But in speaking of the dead we should
perhaps be lenient. The trouble is that
as Shakespeare said of men, the evil
that legislatures do lives after them.
And there is no immediate prospect OF
relief. AS long as we have machine
politics in this state, as long as we
have one-man domination, so long must
we put up with inferior men in the leg
islative councils First class men will
not consent to hold public office as
puppets to dance when the big fellows
behind the scenes pull the strings.
Still, until the best citizens bestir
themselves, until they begin taking an
interest in primaries and In conven-
tons held by the various parties. it is
difficult to understand how any i'm
prOvement can be expected. Any ma
chine can be smashed by the people
The fact that there are machines is
rather more to the discredit of the
people than Of the men who build the
machines.
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r HUS RUNS an ancient rhyme. And
the first thought Of many good citi-
zens in connection with the good st.
Patrick is of the snakes that he evicted
from the Emerald Isle. We have seen
pictures Of the performance and so
often has the story been told that some
CT US have been led to believe it i'm
plicitly. But St. Patrick never drove
literal snakes out of Ireland He did
drive out, to a large extent, sin and
greed and covetousness and intemper-
Cnce and other evils which, after all,
are snakes in the path of human pro-
gress toward better things.
Today our friends of Irish birth or
Irish descent Will celebrate st. Pat
rick's day. They viii march in pa
Tades, they will feast and make merry,
they will riot in the color of the "Ould
sod" Without d flag, without a land
they may truly call their own, the pas
sionate devotion of the Irish to Ireland
must excite the admiration Of the
world. We honor them for it and we
respect, while we wonder at their love
for a country that TO many of them
never meant anything but poverty and
sorrow and distress.
In this broad land of ours are hun
dreds of thousands of loyal American
citizens who are natives OF Ireland or
whose ancestry was Irish. There are
TO better citizens. All the nations of
the world have contributed a quota TO
the population Of this republic, but
none of them are more entitled to hon
est praise from native Americans than
the Irish. None, indeed. are more loyal
none have. given better proof of their
devotion to their adopted country.
You cite the boys dot fit NIT Sic
gel in the war of the rebellion and
we cali your attention to Meagher's IA
nous Irish brigade. You tell US of tn
industrious English and Swedish and
Scandinavian farmers and we tell you
CT the Irish guardians of the peace in
every city. of the Irish preachers and
teachers and business men. The Irish
have not lost and they will never lose
their affection for their own land, but
they have transferred a more than
measurable part OF it to the United
States.
Their hands and their voices will
ever. when occasion arises. be raised
il defense of America SO here's to you
freshmen. brothers al. ard may thi:
st. Patrick's day in the mornin' b,
as happy an occasion for you as ever
your eXuberant hearts could desire.
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WAR fNDEMNITIES.

LTHOUGH THE GAR is said to be
II determined to continue the war
with Japan. talk of peace continues.
And talk of peace recalls the fact that
If Russia does sue for terms she may
be required to pay one of the heaviest
1ademnities ever eSacted from a beaten
nation II is only since the Franco
PrNssian war, as is pointed out by
historian in the London News, that the
indemnity question has been made
prominent. He says:
The amount fixed at Versailles I'm
FEBRUARY. 1871, was five miniards Of
which people thought must crush and
erslave the French people for a genera
ton
TO the surprise Of Europe, the last
instalment OF this gigantic tribute was
paid on Sept. ;, 1873, and the last Ger
man troops crossed the frontier on the
10th OF the same month. While the
soldiers remained France had to keep
them,
After the Russo-Turkish war Russia
sought TO follow the example of the
Germans by demanding a huge and
crushing war indemnity. The treaty
of San Stefano, in February. 1873, COM
PEELED Turkey 10 agree to the indepen-
Gence Of Montenegro. Servia, Rouma-
MIA and the autonomy of Bulgaria and
Crete. and promise to pay the follow
ing bill OF Russie's costs:
RoubIes.
War expenses -......----...-. 9OO,000,000
Damage 20 Russ!a's coasts. 400, 00O, 600
Damage to the Caucasus 100, oOO, 600
Damage to Russian subjects
Tote! .-.. commonwealth ,OOO.OO
Or near,y e15O. 00o.0 900.
After tho China-Japan war in 1894
China paid an Indemnity OF go 600. 600
tacls. or ga 500 .oO0 ana was compelled
to borrow the money. as well as nearly
as MUCK more for her own wa- ex-
penses, in the European market.
THE United States set n moderate
and humane example IN the matter of
indemnities after the war with Spain.
At the peace of 1898 she took the PHI
ippines ana other Islands. and made
Spain grant the Independence OF Cuba,
and also take over ;ke debt OF Cuoa.
and the Philippines. sniouDting to G4G-
600, 600. But America did not demand
q war Indemnity As well as tine is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17
A MATTER OF HISTORY.

A PROPOS OF THE MANY misstate-
~ ments that have been made regard
ing Theodore RooseveIt's number in the
list of American presidents, the Louis
vile COurier-Journal gives out some
information that may be said to settle
the question The Courier-JournaI
says Roosevelt is not. as has been
stated by some writer's. our twenty
ninth president. Nor is the term he has
just begun the twenty-ninth presiden-
tial term. but the thirtieth. The Cour-
ier-Journal continues:
GAS to the separate individuals who
nave held the office of president of the
United States they are in their order
Washington. John Adams. jefferson
Madison, Monroe. John Quincy Adams.
Jackson. Van Buren,, William Henry
Pierce, buchanan, Lincoln. johnson,
Grant, Hayes, Garfield. Arthur Clcve-
land, Ben Jamin Harrison, Mckinley and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and no more. OF
these nine have been elected for 4 sec
ond term. but two. Lincoln and Mckinley
were killed soon after the second term
began. Tyler. Fillmore, johnson and Ar
thur became president without having
been elected to that office, and each
served but q fraction OF q term. Mr.
Roosevelt became president in the same
way. but has made Il new record by sub
sequent election to the office which nc
first held by succession under the c0nsti-
tuition"
In order that our history may be kept
straight. and for the benefit OF cor
respondents who have made inquiries
regarding the matter, the foregoing is
published. Mr. Roosevelt is the twen-
ty-fifth president of the United States
/ He is serving the thirtieth presiden,
tial term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17
ST. PATRIcK's DAY.

It's said st. Patrick drove the snakes
From Ireland and drowned EN-:
He drowned them in the flowing bowl;
1. celebrating, found en-"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17
DIAMOND COAL.

Sold only by Citizens Coal Company.
50 West Second South. Tel. 40.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17

A wise man has suggested that the
term of the governor of Colorado should
be increased from two years TO four
years because II takes two years to
find out who is entitled to the place.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17

II Mr. Fernstrom will make a motion
to postpone action on the Utah Light
& Railway comDany's franchise appli-
cation for, say forty-two years. VIC are
sure he could get considerable sup
port.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17

1t is beginning to look as il Senator
Cockreu might he reelected in Mis-
souri,. He certainly mas showed his
constituents that he can ably represent
them.