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ROCKEFELLER
GIVES ADVICE
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-X Rules by Which John D. Rock- -x
■X efeller Hopes to Live to be -X
-X a Hundred. "X
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■X To attain age without being -X
-X old, just don’t worry about -X
■X anything. Watch your waist- "X
■X line and take precautions to -X
•X avoid getting over weight. "X
■X Drink lots of water all the "X
■X time. Drink at least three -X
■X quarts a day. Keep your body +
■X active. See that every mils- -X
■X cle works. Exercise lots. Nev- ■*
■X er go to sleep unless you can X
■X lie down somewhere in the +
■X fresh air. +
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NEW YORK, July 21.—John D
k Rockefeller, the richest man in the
world and one of the youngest ole
ones, was 77 years of age the othei
day. Mr. Rockefeller has his healtt
and eight hundred million dollars
That’s not far short of a billior
bucks.
Dr. H. F. Biggar, Sr., Rockefeller’s
personal physician for 25 years, de
clares that Rockefeller will live to b<
more than a hundred years old be
cause he follows the rules outlinec
above. When Dr. Biggar took Johi
D. to make him over the oil king yai
going down grade fast. He had won
himself to shreds building up hii
enormous fortune. The doctor tolc
him he must rest or he would die
I Rockefeller has been resting evei
since. He works, but just to suit him
self.
In addition to having about $800,
000,000 in his own right now, Rocke
feller probably has given to his chil
dren and his charities and his col
leges between two and three hundrei
million dollars. The realizable mar
ket value of his Standard Oil holding
alone recently was estimated at hal
a billion dollars.
^ It is estimated that Rockefeller’
income is $60,000,000 a year, which i
I equivalent to $5,000,000 a month, $1,
153,846.15 a week, $6,853.97 an houi
EUROPE GAINS AN HOUR MORE OF DAYLIGHT
Diagram showing manner of daylight saving in nearly all the countries of Europe. A workingman who used
to get up at 6 now gets up at 5, etc., consequently quitting work an hour earlier in the evening, which gives him
one whole hour of daylight to enjoy during the summer. The hodr of sunset, as Indicated on this diagram, applies
to the week of May 21 in England only.
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$140.40 a minute, $1.90 2-3 a second,
j Rockefeller has accumulated every
! cent of this wealth since 1865, when
he made his first $5,000. In 1875 he
had $5,000,000 In 1885 he had $100,
000,000. In 1900 he had $400,000,000.
i In 1905 he had $550,000,000.
HATS, YES! BUT COCK
ROACHES! NEVER
LONDON, July 21.—One hundred
and thirty-eight women war work
. ers who agreed to catch rats for a
big London “rat catching and vermin
. destroying” establishment opened a
■ new discovery of feminine nature to
I day.
They will gladly catch rats tor
i tie a week but “cockroach decoy
• ing” is where they balk. It was
where all but two of the rodent catch
i ers balked today when the firm at
s tempted to Include destruction of the
- wily cockroach In the day’s routine.
, In addition to catching rats and
mice, the firm also attempts to elim
inate crawly mem jers of the vermin
family. When all the men vermin
eradicators were forced to join the
army, the firm advertised for wo
men. There was a feminine rush
for the job. The women were first
taught the gentle art of snaring the
rodem.. Then came the course of
cockroaches, ‘'Nbthing doing,” was
the general reply.
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* THE WORLD’S POTATO *
* CROP. *
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(Prom the London Economist)
Next to wheat, potatoes are the
most important article of vegetable
food for human consumption in coun
tries of a temperate zone. The Ca
nadian government has issued a spe
cial report on the world production
and uses of the potato. In the twen
ty-three principal countries of the
world the total area under potatoes,
| on the average of the ten years 1906
'15, is over 35,520,000 acres, and the
total annual production 5,132,631,000
bushels (60 pounds). Russia has the
largest potato area in the world,
amounting to over 10,500,000 acres.
Germany comes next, with over 8,
j 000,000 acres; then France with 3,
; 794,000 acres; the United States with
3.449.000 acres; Austria, with 3,123,
! 000 acres; Hungary, with 1,647,000
acres, and the United Kingdom, with
1.173.000 acres. So far as yield per
acre is concerned Belgium heads the
| list, with an average of 253 bushels.
Russia, though having the largest
area, only produces an average of 95
bushels an acre; and thus Germany,
with its 204 bushels yield an acre,
easily leads for the total production,
which amounts to 1,681,358,000 bush
els, compared with Russia’s 1,155,
461,000, Austria-Hungary’s 682,377,
000, France’s 497,244,000, the United
States’ 333,514,000 and the United
Kingdom’s 250,733,000. In addition
to its use for human consumption the
potato during normal times and in
certain countries, especially France
and Germany is largely cultivated for
the manufacture of alcohol and starch.
Only 28 per cent of the potato crop
in Germany i - used for human food,
while 40 per cent is used for animal
food and 12 per cent is set aside for
seed purposes. An additional portion
of the surplus, in round numbers 100,
000,000 bushels, or a little less than
6 per cent of the total crop, is made
into alcohol and used for industrial
purposes, and to replace petroleum
products. Over 50,000,000 bushels
are made each year into starch, dex
trine, a..d related products; the re
maining ten per cent of the crop is
estimated to he lost through decay.”
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