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THE KANSAS STATESMAN, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, ATCHISON, KANSAS. THE POPULAR GIRL. HEIR TO VAST SUM. KNOW THE BUILDINGS FIREMEN ATTACK FIRES TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE. JOHN D.

ROCKEFELLER, A CHILD OF FORTUNE, 5 i 5 fr CORNISH LANGUAGE LAST SPOKEN A CENTURY AND A QUARTER. AGO Senator Aldrlch's Beautiful Daughter Ills rromlsed lirhle lie Teaches Sunday School, Works Hard and Has LAST OF THE BOL VARS. Death of a Nephew of the Great South American Liberator. When we turn our eyes through the lens of South American history and recall that bloody struggle for independence, we behold the shadows of many deathless heroes, whoso steps along the corridors of time have left a trailing light of glory behind them. Such a cluster of noble patriots include Miranda, Paes, Sucre, Monagas, Bermu-dez, Falcon, Vargas, and Simon Bolivar, whose names will live in Imperishable grandeur as long as the human heart can cherish deeds of valor and An Official of the New York Department Tells of the Advantages of an Accurate Knowledge of lilg Buildings This Requires Study.

No Had Hublts. Prospective heir to a fortune of $300,000,000, John Davidson Rockefel "The rules of the department," said a New York fire department official to the New York Sun, "require all captains of engine and truck companies to insDect reeularlv at. intervals of ler, whose engagement to Abbie, the beautiful daughter of Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, was announced re sentiments of unalloyed patriotism. lnree montha all buildings of a public But by far the most eminent and or 8emi-public character within their cently, Is destined to become a poten tial factor in affairs. By education training and temperament he is equipped, at the age of 23, to assume the responsibilities involved In the dl loremost man or that period ana tne respective districts.

The buildings one who infused his lofty Individuality thus inspected Include hotels, theaters, among all his followers, was General hosp'tals, asylums, stores and ware-Simon Bolivar, who has ever since houses, public halls and so on; prac-been known as the Libertador the tlcally alI buildings, in fact, except Washington of South America. And prlvate dwellings, and in this way the rection of his father's vast Interests, and in large measure, has already done so. Entering the office of the Standard Oil Company three years ago, fresh wen nas ne won sucn rame, as commanding officers of companies be- Shu Is Neither Kgotlstlcal Nor AWapped Up In Herself. The self-centered girl who stands with her back to people, takes the tallest chair, pushes herself to the front and snubs young and old, friends and enemies alike, because she is thinking and caring only for herself, is never the popular girl. She is the one who ca'ises much mischief among humanity.

So wrapped in self she forgets that there is any other being besides herself on earth and she, consequently, wants all the attention of her friends, if she has any, to the exclusion of everybody else. Her friends dare not mention any other's name; hers must be on their lips constantly. She is the ideal egotist, this self-centered girl. Watch and listen to the popular girl. She is thinking about you, your likes, your opinions, your happiness.

She sets you and everyone she comes in contact with at east and makes you appear at your best because she looks and expresses a friendly Interest in you. Her motto is not "what are you going to do to me or for me," but "what can I do for -ou." The same la true of all those around her. She is constantly studying how she can make others happy. There Is no excuse for any girl not to possess all the womanly charms which go so far toward making one popular and others happy when they can be had for the taking. The oldest, youngest, poorest, homeliest and most sedate 'can possess these charms if she so desires.

Then there is another reason why girls should endeavor to cultivate these charms, because it makes them attractive, lovable and winning, which is every woman's mission and which makes her useful to the world. No true woman can afford to live for self. She will be the heaviest loser ln the end. The world will not coax any one to be kind and lovable, but It will abundantly reward those who pay attention to these things. Pittsburg Press.

from Brown University, he has ad vanced steadily from a junior clerk Idol of his people, the admired hero of Europe and America, the conqueror of Spain, the liberator of half a continent, and the founder of five nations. By the strange fergiversations of come acquainted with the interior of every important building, within their district boundaries. The captain of a fire company knows where the stairways are and the elevator shafts if there are any; where the fire escapes ship to the position of financial director of the great corporation, his principal duties being to keep in touch Latin-American politics, and the rival with the securities market and protect the investments of the company and ries and jealousies of smaller men, the are and tne doorg wlndow3 and great Libertador, within two years other openings, skylights and so on. after his successes, found himself an jn Bnort he knows the lnslde of tne of its individual stockholders. His aptitude has surprised and delighted John exile an outcast from the nations he D.

Rockefeller, Sr. had created. In the sadness and hu building and in case of fire in it he does not approach the building as a stranger nor lose a minute hunting Recent discussion of the position occupied by the Irish language reminds us that, though there is happily no fear of Irish becoming extinct, a kindred Celtic language has died out. Cornish is as dead as Queen Anne. Not quite so dead, perhaps, for It survived a little later than that much-quoted lady.

There have been six Celtic languages that have come into immediate contact with modern times. These are' Welsh, Cornish and Breton, which may be grouped together as Cymric or Brythonic; Irish, Scotch, Gaelic and Manx, which are Goidhellc. Breton is struggling bravely against the French. Whatever may be said of the Scotch Gaelic and Manx, Welsh and Irish may yet resist the supremacy of the English. But poor Cornish is altogether a thing of the past.

It only survives In a few relics and ln place names. It Is not even a dead language In the same sense as Greek or Latin; it died without leaving seeds for any possible resurrection. Slow and sure was the mode of Its extinction. When the Reformation came an English Bible and an English service book struck the death blow. The share which the Cornish took ln the western rebellion was in some sort a last struggle of racial impulse.

"Certain of us understand no English," exclaimed the stout Cornishman; "give us back our old service in Latin. We utterly refuse this new English." Probably they had understood Latin no better, but they had an instinctive feeling that this new English must do away with their loved national speech. Unhappily none of them loved the old speech well enough to do the right thing. No one took the trouble to translate the Bible or the Liturgy into Cornish. The English Bible killed the Cornish tongue, but it did not convert the Cornish to Anglicanism.

They became Noncomformist and finally Methodist. Everyone who know3 anything of Cornwall knows that the credit of having last spoken Cornish is given to Dolly Pentreath, who was buried at Paul, near Mousehole, in 1775. But she could not have been the last person to understand Cornish; otherwise it is certain that the following epitaph could not have been written over her remains: Co Doll Pentreath caus ha deau Marow ha Kledys ed Paul plea: Na ed an ealoz, gan popel bras, Bes ed egloz hay coth Dolly is. Which signifies: "Old Doll Pentreath, one hundred and two, dead and burled In Paul Parish. Not in the church with great people, but in the churchyard old Dolly lies." It Is easy to recognize two words here, "egloz" and "popel" (people), as genuine Latin, just as we similarly find an infusion of Latin in present-day Welsh.

But a traditional knowledge of Cornish, fast becoming corrupt, lingered after Dolly's death; it is even said that only ten years ago there was living at Zennor, near St. Ives, an old man who knew a good many Cornish words which he had learned from his father. These words seem to have been chiefly the names of places. It is only about two centuries since the clergy of soma Cornish parishes, particularly toward Land's End, used to preach to their people in the old tongue. For a parallel to Cornish we may now go to Brittany and hear the peasantry talking.

It ha3 been said, rather doubtfully, that these peasants, when they come over with onions, can go into the cottages of Welsh folk and converse. This sort of thing would have been far more possible In Cornwall a few centuries since; the Bretons and Cornish are very much of one race and their speech shared the kinship. There is still a Cornish dialect, which differs from Devonian, and which contains a few old Celtic words; but on the whole the words of West Country speech are old Saxon it is only the accent and intonation that are Celtic. Boston Pilot. From early boyhood Mr.

Rockefeller miliation of exile he passed his days dying at Santa Marta in 1830. A tardy around to know what to dn or has been under his father's personal direction. His education was shaped along lines of usefulness, and he has had constantly in mind the career awaiting him, its responsibilities and burdens, and the relief of his father from the strain under which he has long labored. 13 Cents that Grew to 612,000. John D.

Rockefeller, was born in Ohio and spent the first fifteen years reversion of national feeling succeed-, wnere to g0, He knowg ell that before ed, and twelve years later, his remains he gets Into the building at all, and were brought back to Caracas, and according to the floor the fire is on, amid the greatest pomp he was laid to ne g0es straight to it without a mo-rest in the pantheon of his native city. menfs doubt 0r hesitation or loss of The last direct relative of the Liber- time. It mlght be, for instance, tJwt tador, bearing his family name, has the officer in charge at a fire on the just died in Caracas, at the extreme thlrd flo0r of some building would age of ninety-one years. He was Don want to get at it from some more ad-Fernando Simon Santiago Bolivar vantageous point. He would, from his Palacios, the son of Colonel Juan VI- precise and accurate knowledge of the cente Bolivar Palacios, the only buildings thereabouts, know just how brother of General Bolivar (this broth- to g0 about lt ln the best possible way er being lost at sea while conducting a Say this fire is in a building at 1 filibustering expedition during the fiUch-and'-siich a street.

He sends men patriot wars). Don Fernando lived lnto No. 3, telling them that ten feet until the time of his death in an un-j back from the top of the thlrd flignt pretentious quarter of Caracas, in a 0f stairs they will find a recessed nlai-e GENTLEMAN IN BARE FEET. Ho Causes Much Surprise In Gardens of Moscow. For some weeks a gentleman elegantly dressed, except as regards his feet, has been walking for several hours daily in one of the public gardens at Moscow.

On his feet he wore neither shoes nor stockings, and for this reason naturally attracted much attention from the crowds that frequent the garden. That he was a man of wealth many persons conjectured very ordinary house, sparsely furnished, which could in no particular give an impression of the large wealth he is reputed to have loft. He was extremely infirm, feeble and palsied, requiring constant attention, as his helplessness was so complete during the last years that his food had to be raised to his mouth by another. Through the influence of such physical weakness, long confinement, and the drooping energies and faculties oi extreme old age, his mind was naturally weakened, and, as unfortunately in the wall, where formerly there had been a door through into No. 1 and which would be the quickest and easiest spot to break through, the wall at that point being thinner.

The company commander knows the buildings in this district thoroughly, and as a matter of fact the battalion commanders and other higher officers of the force know the buildings within the larger area of the district over which they have supervision correspondingly well. The rules of the department require that on appointment into the That City is the Greatest Cotton Manufacturing Center in the World. Fall River's from his extremely fashionable attire, but why he did not cover his feet they could not understand. The mystery has JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.

of his life on a farm near Cleveland often occurs with the aged, this be-Service a fireman must serve service a nreman must serve now been solved. As the odd looking tnree below Fifty-ninth pedestrian was walking in the garden clouded condition was manifest in an years at least i years at least the other day, an elderly woman, con Mr. Rockefeller, to test his son's mental trend, offered him one cent on every picket he found displaced on the intense bitterness against all whe were directly or remotely related tc him. Venezuela Herald. fident that he was a beggar, approached him, and, taking out her farm fence.

Young Rockefeller walked purse, handed him 25 cents, saying: around the entire estate a day's jour ney for a lad of his age and netted 13 cents. He was still looking for de "Take this and go and buy yourself a pair of second-hand shoes. I am only a poor woman; otherwise I would give you more." With t.ie&e words sue went away, but the gentleman followed her fective pickets at nightfall, when Mr. Rockefeller came upon him in a far corner of the estate. It is related that the 13 cents thus earned, judiciously hastily, and, holding out the 25 cents street, in the course of which time, in whatever rank he may be, he must get some knowledge, in a general way at least, of the buildings in the most densely built-up part of the city.

When a man is promoted he Is more than likely to be sent to some other company than the one in which he had been serving. And as assistant foreman, or lieutenant, of a fire company, he Is required to know the buildings within the district of the company to which, he is attached. A captain promoted to be battalion chief may be assigned to another battalion district; but it may be one in which he had previously served ln some capacity, and comprising some company districts of which he had gained exact $215,850, an average of a little over $7 each for employes of all ages and both sexes. The average wages of the weavers are about $0.60 a week for six loom workers on print cloths, $8.80 for eight loom workers and $11 for ten loom workers. The classification means that the worker is capable of properly running the number of looms specified.

On fancy work, such as bed spreads, a weaver may earn higher wages than the highest stated with four or more looms. Carders earn from $7 to $9 a week, and card grinders about $10 a week. Slasher tenders earn about $11 a week, and loom fixers about $12, while spinners receive from $11 to $17. Of the weavers, about half are women and minors. The slasher tenders, loom fixers and the mule spinners are ail men and the carders are nearly all woicen.

invested, has grown to $12,000. he said: "Please tane this back, for I really do not need it. I can buy all The Camplii Tree, The camphor tree (Cinnamomura camphora) is an evergreen, a member of the laurel family, belonging to th same genus as the tree whose bark furnishes the spice called cinnamon, and is related to the bay and to the sassafras of the United States. Of symmetrical proportions, it is one of th noblest objects In the forests of eastern subtropical Asia. In its natlv habitat it attains gigantic dimensions notably in girth of trunk, some specimens measuring ten to fifteen feet ic the shoes I want, but am a disciple of Miss Aldrich's fiance is not a devotee of society, and no club claims him as a member; he does not drink and has never used tobacco in any form; his colors are not registered with the Jockey Club, and it is said he never Kneipp, and I think it healthier to go barefooted." The woman, however, had never heard of Abbe Kneipp, and, still convinced that the man was a beggar, she refused to take the money, Fall River, whose cotton operatives were recently threatened with a 15 per cent reduction in wages, which, however, was averted by the action of M.

C. D. Borden, an independent manufaeturer.in strengthening the market by a large purchase of cotton cloth, Is the greatest cotton manufacturing city on the globe. In addition, it is the center of the cotton manufacturing industry of New England. Providence, R.

another important manufacturing city, is only eighteen miles away to the northwestward; Taunton, is seventeen miles north; Kw Bedford, Mass, Is fourteen miles east, and Newport, R. is eighteen miles south. Fall River produces more than three-quarters of all the print cloths made in the United States, has one-seventh of all the spindles In the country, and about a fourth of those ln New England, and more than twice as many as any other city in the country. Its mills turn out more than 1,500 miles of cotton cloth every working day. It Is estimated that $47,000,000 is Invested in the industry, although the Incorporated companies conducting it are capitalized at only $23,801,000.

The number of spindles in the mills is and the number of looms Is 75,878. The number of men, women and minors employed exceeds 30,000, and the annual output Is about yards of cloth. The aggregate of the weekly pay rolls of the mills is witnessed a horse race; he does not diameter. It is said they have beer and hurried off so fast that the gen tleman could not overtake her. known to reaph as much aa tn'ontt' linnuilwlc whllo Borvlnn In It mi an own a yacht; he rarely attends the theater and then only as a patron of feet, and they may be sixty to ovei officer of a company.

Of course he 100 feet high, and live to a great age The Russian Army. music, and for other sportive pastimes of the young men of the day he has no taste. Nevertheless, Mr. Rockefel An idea of the present efficiency of As a rule they rise twenty or thirtj feet without limbs, and then brand) out in all directions, becoming a mast ler is not without healthful resources. the Russian army may be gained from the recent Russian conquest of Man- He is an athlete of no mean order, he is not averse to driving behind a fast of splendid and luxuriant foliage ehnrla, which was effected almost en Their leaves, broadly lanceolate lr tlrely by Siberian troops, the troops at horse and is an accomplished violinist form, are of a light green color home having been left practically un smooth and shining above, and whit touched.

In this campaign Russia ish or glaucous on the under surface swiftly and secretly massed 150,000 ef Lemon Juice for Nose Bleeding. Dr. Benjamin Edson says in the Medical World that lemon juice is a remedy for nose bleeding. One part of the juice to three or four of water Is used by insufflation after clearing the nostrils by "blowing." In emergencies he has used the lemon juice undiluted, but would not advise this procedure ln ordinary cases. The author claims no credit for the method; he "picked It up" many years ago, he says, and he does not know who Is entitled to the credit for first using lt.

But it is as the teacher of the young men's Bible class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church that Mr. Rockefeller finds his greatest pleasure. There for three years he has conducted Bible sets himself. to learning all the other company districts and if, indeed, he did not know them already, he soon comes to know his battalion district thoroughly, and he keeps up his knowledge of lt by constant study With such training and experience, supplemented by constant inspection of new buildings, lt becomes possible ior one man to know the whole town thoroughly; as, for example, Fire Chief Croker knows it. It is said of Chief Croker that he knows every building downtown; and it would no doubt be literally true to say of him that he knows from personal observation, Inside and out, every structure of importance on Manhattan Island." ficlent troops, on the Manchurlan fron Small white or greenish white flower! are borne from February to April, anc tier, thousands of miles from Europe by October ripen Into berrylike, one' seeded fruits about three-eighths of ar without any special effort.

The general total on peace footing, Including those not In the ranks, garrison troops and local reserve forces, amounts to inch In diameter. Good Words Tried und Convicted, Too. 950,000 men, with 350,000 horses. On a war footing, Including the reserves, the Politics ln the West, even more thai In the East, says the author of "Lift and Sport in California," Is a profession. I remember two men who wen soldiers of the czar amount to men and 000,000 horses.

The tr-Vil population cl the empire is 128,939,537 Has 'Run 4,000,000 Miles. candidates for the office of district at fouls. torney. One had served before; th other was a young man conducting hli first campaign. Tho veteran wai Dtncln): Around a Mausoleum.

rendered homeless, and the loss and damage to property was estimated at $300,000,000. speaking In a small town and aftei Cornwall liuS many curious customs, but that new oneof twenty-one years' setting forth his own claims, he spok date called the Knill celebration Is as follows of his opponent: "1 under perhaps, the most curious of all. -The stand that Mr. X. Is ln every sense worthy and honorable man, but I ash What Is believed to be by far the longest record of travel In the railway world has Just been completed by the Great Northern express engine known as "No.

1," which has covered the enormous distance of 4,000,000 miles, or 15 times tbe span from the moon to the earth. The engine Is still dally employed on express rains between King's Cross and Dor.easter, and Is stationed at Peterborough. It has single driving wheels and was one of the first to be fitted with outside cylinders. Over 30 years have elapsed since left the you to remember that he has nevet been tried he has never been ilft to Mexican Hongstrcss. Emperor Franz Jozef of Austria forwarded a generous gift to Concha Mendlz, the Mexican songstress, on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

After Emperor Maximilian, brolher cf Fran: Jozef, had been shot.and Empress Car-lotta had gone Insane the audience at a Mexican theater called on SIgnora Mendlz to sing a song vilifying them, but she cried out, "Np, I shall not vilify the dead and the unhappy," and a hush fell upon the house. This Incident Is recalled in connection with the gift. Troe Enterprise. "Any one killed ln that Are down at the Old Maids' home?" asked tho Great Editor of the Assistant. "Naw nothln' but nine cats," said the Assistant, who was not alive to the possibilities of yellow Journalism.

"Great Scott, man!" yelled the Great Editor. "Rush an extra on the streets and run a red-Ink head line clear across the front page, saying "Eighty-one Lives Lost!" Baltimore American. "That's so!" exclaimed a voice. "You've been tried, old man, haven't you'i And convicted, too, you know!" Aftoi due Inquiry It appeared that the veteran, had been, ln need, Indicted foi late John Knill left 5 to be equally divided between ten girls, under 10 years of age, natives of St. Ives, and daughters of seamen, fishermen or tinners, who shall dance and sing round the mausoleum containing his mortal remains on the anniversary of his death.

Other curious gifts, such as 5 to the native with most children, are also distributed. The ceremonies last week were very picturesque, and the local magnetea did their beHt to let everybody have a good time. Bring Coffee Tree North. Twelve full-grown coffee trees have been imported from Contapee, Mexico, for exhibition at the pan-American show at Buffalo. They average about six feet height and are considered fine specimens.

The leaves resemble greatly those of a peach tree and here and there green oblong coffee berries, vnrylHg from one to three-quarters of an Inch In length, grow In clusters on the branches about midway between the trunk and the end of the limb. When ripe these berries turn to a dull red and the bean Inside Is then ready to be cured. Coffee trees begin to bear ln the third season and remain fruited for about six yoars. studies, assisted at times by his father, who In this work, a3 In everything else, is Ills (iuldo and Philosopher. In personal appearance Mr.

Rockefeller bears little resemblance to his father. He Is about five feet eight inches In hlght, of slight but well knit frame, and his features are pale and Intellectual. Ills eyes are blue and are shaded by eyebrows of black, bushy hair, which almr.st meet. When seated at the desk he rimless glasses, and hi3 aspect Is that of a divinity student rather than a man of affairs. Though Mr.

Rockefeller goes little Into society and has never belonged to a club since his college days, when he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi st Brown university, he Is one of the best dressed men In New York. Ho Is partial to quiet colors, but his clothing Is alwayB fashioned from the choicest fabrics. Punctual to the minute In bumjss engagements, one might net a clock by Mr. Rockefeller's dally schedule. During the Biirnmmer he makes his home at Boxwood, the country seat of John D.

Rockefeller, In Tarrytown. He Is up at 6:30 every morning, and for the ensuing hour may be seen about the Rockefeller stables or at the woodpile chopping wood, a form of exercise to which he long ago became accustomed. Breakfast over, he drives to the railroad station In time to catch the train leaving Tarrytown for New York at twenty minutes to 9 o'clock. One hour later he Is at his desk In tho office of the Standard Oil company, In lower Broadway. He Is never late.

Mr. Rockefeller at noon patronizes a Broad street cafo, where he partakes of a frugal luncheon, for which ho allows himself thirty minutes. The meal rarely costs him more than thirty cents, horsestealing, and convicted. 'He wai company's works at Doncaster, and the original wheels still carry their massive burden. not elected.

Youth's Companion. Their Second Meeting. When Miss Swagger met Mr. Sap- Borne Destructlva Karthqunkei. A most destructive earthquake took place on February 2nd, 1703, at Yeddo (or Jeddo), the chief city of Japan, when the place was almost destroyed hedde at the seaside she thought he was a millionaire and he permitted her to think so, although he was an humble clerk in a hotel at Skwedunk.

On her return home, some weeks after and WO.OOO people were killed. One his departure, It so happened that she hundred thousand peoplo were killed by an earthquake that occurred at Pe- Steel llrldge Over Klondike. The first steel bridge in middle Yukon has been formally opened for traffic. It spans the Klondike river, nearly opposite the mouth of Bonanza Creek, or about a mile and a half above Its junction with the Yukon at Dawson. The main span ta 154 feet long, and rests on steel caissons filled with cement and strengthened with crib and rock-work.

The total cost of tho bridge In position was $30,000. kln, the capital city of China, on the stoppbd over night at the Skwedunk hotel. Her meeting with Mr. Saphedde was embarrassing to her until she said, you didn't tell me you were a hotel proprietor." "No," he said, airily, "I 30th of November, 1731. Eighty thousand people were killed by an earthquake at Schamakl in 1067; and by an earthquake ln Sicily ln Sep own several hotels over the country, Crlrkra Mill the Kavorlle (lame.

Cricket still holds its own In the Brltlsn Isles In spite of tho Increased attention paid to football, golf and other sports. This was strongly shown by the records of attendance and receipts nt the annual match between Yorkshire and LancuHhlre, This match lasted three days, and tho average dally attendance of spectators was The profits amounted to a very large nun. which, In acordance with custom, was handed over to the champion professional player. Men's Leather Hrce1rts. The number of men wearing leather bracelets Is said to be Increasing.

Borne call them leather They are supposed to be a protection for weak joints and soft bones, Many athletes are addicted to the bracelet habit. Perhaps there Is a superstition with It that lt keeps off disease, as there Is with the buckskin worn on the to prevent gout, and the red firing about the waist to cure but I did not think they were hardly tember, 1093. The cities of Arequlpa, Iqulque, Tacna and Clencha, besides worth mentioning." Ohio State many other smaller towns In Peru and There Is a considerable demand fo? Sue Did lt ever occur to you what poor talkers the men are? He Did you ever consider that It is the women who teach babies to say things? Ecuador, were destroyed and 25,000 people killed by an earthquake In iug-ust, 1808; while over 30,000 people vere bicycles In Japan, and some automo btlus have been recently Imported..