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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 218, 13 March 1912, Page 8

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i«fci — ■■ HOW CARNEGIE GOT THE BETTER OF ROCKEFELLER.. ■ £8«;ooo;ooo- deal.. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who was a witness to-day before the Congressional Committee which is investigating the Steel Trust, explained with great gle« Kow he got the Better of Mr. John: D. Rockefeller in a deal about ore lands itt the Lake Superior district. ' > "I induced Mr. Rockefeller to sell on a royalty basis of 7y 3 d' to' 10d' a ton," said Mr. Carnegie. "The same property has since been capitalised By the United States Steel Corporation on the basis of 4s a ton.. Mrs; Carnegie and I visited Mr., and Mrs.. Rockefeller this New Year's Day, and found them seated on the porch. Mrs. Rockefeller is a fine woman and a fine wife, but she is doing poorly now. The old gentleman was in good' fettle.. There he was, tall, lean, spare and smiling and happy as could be. He told us the cold weather did not affect him much, as he wore a paper jacket. He gave each of us one, and it really is a fine thing to keep-the body warm. We chatted' over old' times, but I did not. mention- that ore transaction in which I got the better of" him. That was : the one time when I 'took in' a fellow millionaire."

Mr. Carnegie laughed long, but quickly became serious when he was asked how much the Steel Corporation paid for the Carnegie Steel Company when it absorbed the latter concern.

i "We received £'86,000,000,"- said he, "and what a fool I was to sell out at that priee!' I learned later .that Mr. Morgan would have given ££,000,000 more. The whole process of sale was only a matter of one or two sentences between Mr: Charles Schwab and myself. I did not see Mr. Morgan at all' in connection with the deal. My personal share of the proceeds was £42,600,000 in Steel Corporation bonds." Mr. Carnegie was questioned about the £BOO,OOO surplus which it was said he received as a result of the sale.

"I do. not remember any £BOO,OOO surplus," said he. "I have a financial secretary who attends to all small matters of that kind." In answer to further questions Mr. Carnegie said that he started the steel business in 18ft! with a borrowed capital of £soo. "I learned early in life," he said, "that a large part of success in business depends on having the> right sort of men- to help, and -I drew to me ambitious young men of great ability. If I had continued in business instead of selling out, I would have astonished the world and defied competition." '

Several times Mr. Carnegie interrupted his testimony, to chuckle over his Rockefeller deal.

"I have a laugh every time I think of it," said he. "It is quite a job, you know, to get the best of a man with a head like Mr. Rockefeller's."

BOY SUN GOD DISAPPEARS. ELECTRIC MARRIAGE. Chicago, January §. After hearing strange evidence concerning the Mazdaznan worship yesterday, Judge Pinskney, of the Chicago Juvenile Court, adjourned the proceedings owing to the mysterious disappearance of Willie and Mrs*Lindsay. It was declared that the sun worshippers were hiding their boy-god. The case will proceed after the circumstances of I the disappearance have been investigafcjed. I Despatches from Salt Lake City assert that the high priest, Dr. Hanish, is an ex-Mormon, whose real name is Otto

Hanish. He became a' Mormon; convert fifteen years ago, worked for a year as a compositor on the Desert News,, the official organ of the Mormons,, and,' then tried to form a dissenting branch of the Mormon Church-. Hanish in the witness-box yesterday declared that he is of royal lineage, and is entitled to be addressed as "prince." He admitted that he travelled about the country with Willie and' Mrs-. Lindsay, but denied that any improprieties had occurred, in the Madaznan temple. Mrs. Reikert, Mrs. Lindsay's sister, gave evidence that Hanish convinced' Mrs. Lindsay that she was a French princess, and that Willie was Louis XVI., the lost Dauphin, while he was the reincarnation of Christ, Moses and Napoleon.. "My sister once informed' me," said Mrs. Reikart, "that' she had' seen 1 Napolean's face grow from Hanish's features. She asked him about it, and he replied', Tfes, I am the reincarnation of Napoleon, but tell nobody.'"' The investigations have led to the discovery of the Mazd'aznan inspired' writ- | ings, known as the "Green Book."' It contains directions for preparing everything from bean soup to tlie elixir of life. Among the subjects treated' by it are perpetual life, soul' mates and "electrical" marriages. The Mazdaznaniteg are instructed to purify themselves by, eliminating' false mod'esty»and : scruples. "Bathe in the sun,"' "Be your- own' god," "Eat vegetables,"' and' "attend upon Hanish's utterances,"' are some of the commandments.

The sun bath is given as the chief remedy for all ailments. While bathing in. it the disciples are instructed to play : tennis or golf, pick flowers-; converse- pleasantly with others, or do to keep- the mind agreeably occupied. { '"Electric marriage"' comes only to one i who finds a soul mate and who knows [ all things, including the fact* that jealousy, anger and all' the baser passions are due to improper diet and digestion 1 . Most of the book is occupied with the discussion of sex problems; i Willie Lindsay, the sun god; who was ; rescued' about a fortnight ago from the' ! Temple of Mazdaznan, is the twelve'yf ar-old'-son of a millionaire, who died ' recently, leaving the boy £200,000. He j was terribly emaciated, having- been' fed' 'for some time or white grapes and beer ;to increase his dignity. Hanish and Mrs. Lindsay were charged 1 •with ill-treating the boy, and to-day's .proceedings were the result of thisteharge. ' . FATHER'S' FIGHT FOtt A DYING ■ son; 1 seventeen hours in a snow- 7 1 • STORM. ! I . , Edinburgh, January 11. . A remarkable story of a father's gal : lant effort to save his dying son in a blinding snowstorm and afterwards to ■ cany home His body was reported yester:day. *

' ! A shepherd named Cameron and' his-twelve-year-old son lost their- way on a j moor in the, wild Loch Fyne district of ; Scotland' while walking, from-Tarbert to [their home, a distance of seven miles.

Snow was falling heavily and the boy 'became fatigued and benumbed. When ihe sank to the ground the. father divest;ed himself, of part of his clothing and' covered the boy with it. In spite of this- He died ; shortly afterwards. Cameron carried his dead son until exhaustion compelled him to leave the : body on a hill. He afterwards continued' to journey to his home, which he reached !at 7' o'clock in the morning. He had been exposed to the storm for seventeeni hours.

After resting for a time he returned to 'carry titatioty'-Uome*. TERRORISED CREW. PANIC CAUSED BY AN ESCAPED COBRA. New York, January 1. In the long voyage from Calcutta- to. this port the crew of a Germaa steamer have lived in deadly terror of a cobra. The mortal character, of the reptile'* bite was vividly proved on the fourth day after the steamer had left Calcutta, when the men heard a shriek of agony. It came from a sailor who had been walking along the deck in the darkness* He had been bitten on the leg; and a few hourse later died in convulsions.. The cobra; escaped 1 ,, and is still concealed in some unknown part of the shipi.

The steamer- took 124' snakes- aboard at Calcutta. They were consigned to an animal dealer in New York, the cobra having a box to himself. The snakes were fed from time to time by dropping live rats into their boxes. .

' Early in the voyaig® tlte eotes bw>ke !• from its. cage, and its escape was not discovered until' the night on which the : sailor was fatally "bitten. Officers and men hunted for the reptile j without finding any trace of it, and at ' night the sailors became so terror-strick-i en that they carried lanterns whenever. , thev moved about the deck.

The reptile's whereabouts are still a I mystery.

REALLY NOW! VJL SWEETNESS OF ANGER. New York, January 2. \Y)>pn a man is angry, or is in the grip of any strong emotion, he is boiling over with sugar, and is sweeter than at any other time. ,

Announcement of this fact has been made by Dr. W. *B. Cannon, of Harvard University, in an address before the annual convention of the American Physiological Societ\. This saccharine result, said Dr. Cannon, is due to a greater demand for sugar on the;part of the muscles concurrent with emotional excitement, which the blood supplies.

NEW YORK'S SENSATION. £85,000,000 SAVED FROM THE GREAT FIRE. Cash securities worth £85,000,000 were removed from the Mercantile and Equitable Trust Companies' vaults in the Equitable building ruins to-day. These vaults were above the basement, and the other vaults in the subcellar are still unapproachable. A strong force of police guarded the valuables during their transfer to their owner*' new quarters. 39,000,000 FRENCHMEN. AND YET NOT ENOUGH. Paris, January 10. The result of last year's census in France, which have just been published, show that the population numbers but little over thirty-nine million person?, the increase for the previous year being only 349,204. In the past forty yefers the population has increased by only three and a half millions.