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COvtWENSATIONS OF GREATER On
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
IBCILINE DOWN OF EVENTS
Mi ni, Pot t cal. Personal and Other
Mattars l« Brief Form for AU
Classes of Reads'*.
Congress.
Coagre»s expects to adjourn about
tlie loth of August.
Preejdec; Taft sent in a veto mes
sage of the wool bill
fbe general deficiency appropria
ttun bill passed tbe bouse.
Tbe Oldfield bill to revise the patent
lavs mas favorably reported in tbe
Souse.
The botiee served notice on tbe sen
ate (bat tbe Bristow Lodge sugar bill
•ould not be accepted.
Senator Kenyon's bill to compel
J*.; art.teams for anti trust law viola
tor* was placed upon the calendar.
The Military committee of tbe bouse
favorably reported tbe bill appropri
ating S3*—•.♦»•!> for relief of refugees
from Mexico.
The bouse rules committee receiv
ed a memorial from Mrs. M. W. Lit
tleton urging congressional action on
the purchase of ' Monticello "
Tbe lirano* ree amendment to Pana
ma canal bill substituting a governor
for a commission of three to govern
Panama canal and tone was adopted
tf tbe senate.
Tbe senate adopted amendments
lo the Panama bill admitting to
American-owned, foreign-built ships
engaged exclusively in foreign trade,
pro*id.rg lower tells for ships in bal
last and free tolls to Americans* ned,
foreign built ships.
The senate adopted the sraendraent
to the Panama bill admitting to
American registry American owned
foreign built ships engaged exclusive
ly in foreign trade, providing lower
toils for ship- in ballast and free tolls
to American owned foreign built
skips
Tbe Panama canal administration
bit] providing free passage to Amerl
-an mb ps, prohibiting railroad owned
vessels from using the waterway and
stfhorixiig the establishment of a
one man goiernment. when the canal
is completed, was passed by the sen
ate by a vote of 47 to IS.
OtsorpL
Toe progressive convent km opened
la n harmonious manner.
At It* no. Set.. Mrs. Edna G. Hull
filed complaint against Henry Hull,
the illustrator. charging simple deaer
t»'. at Stew York since J'*l" They
were married in New York in IMS.
Mrs Mary Harsh of Preston. la_
who dwd at Hopkins. Mo, was be
lieved to have been Iowa's oldest wo
man She was Hr* years of age and
had lived m the state fifty.^wo years.
formal *M»u»eew*eut was tnaoe by
Gownag Wilson that he would not
resins the governorship of New Jer
oey curing bo cainpnign for tne pres
idency.
Tbe battleship Nebraska limped
Into Boston badly disabled as a re
naH of running into an uncharted
shoal four miles west by south of
Point Judith light bouse.
Twenty socialists, including nine
young women, jailed in Pittsburg for
street speaking without a police per
mit. kept the other prisoners awake
all night with ceil oratory.
Evidence of the growing anxiety of
tbe administration in regard to tbe
revolutionary movement in Nicaragua
was Shown when orders were issued
to tbe gunboat Tacoma to proceed
forthwith to Bluefields. Nicaragua.
Though Harry S. Wade of Iowa had
his eyes blown out and was made
oral by an explosion on n western
irrigation project, it being claimed
that tbe accident was doe to tbe gov
ernment's negligence, the bouse de
rided that ftf-SSO was sufficient to
compensate him for his injuries.
»- of Senator Eorimer cost tbe
setsa'.e nearly I17S.4MM. according to a
tentative estimate The heavy ex
penses will necessitate a special ap
propriation It was stated that At
torneys Henley and Marble, who were
counsel for the committee, would
«Hl receive No allowanee
will be made to Lorimer
By a vote of » to IS the senate
agreed to the conference report on
the so-called budget bill.'' containing
the provision abolishing the com
merce coart. distributing the judges
now os that bench to various circuit
conns and the amendment of the
civil service law to make It cover
only seven year periods.
T K Murray, a supervisor of the
Indian department, arrived at Ash
land Wi«. to lake charge of the In
dian office of the Bad River reserva
tion. Commissioner Valentine has
notified Mayor Campbell of his suspen
sion.
A record price for cattle was ectab
Ln.ed at Chicago when a carload of
g»eer* from Tuscola. III., sold for
SI* lb a hundred
Marines from Panama have been or
dered to Nicaragua to supplement the
force of bluejackets now In Managua,
guarding Americans and their proper
ty
When bis wife refused to miss her
•"beauty sleep" Or. B. B. Ownen. own
e» of Vo* acres of land near Hart
pkorr.e. Okla. turned the hose on her.
A quarrel ensued and Ownen picked
wp a big revolver and shot himself
three times, dying In a few minutes.
Senator Augustus O. Bacon of
Georgiai. democrat, became presiding
officer of the senate in the absence of
Vice l*r. sident Sherman.
The Second battalion. Third regi
ment. Oregon National Guard, was di
rec'ly d; (band'd by the general staff
as m resell cf the refusal of the men to
obey orders.
The strike of freight kandlera on
the Northern Pacific docks at Duluth
ended.
President Taft formally accepted
the resignation of Federal Judge Cor
nelius Hanford of Seattle, who re
signed while being investigated.
An American food famine is the
prediction of agricultural exports.
Right Rev. P. A. Ludden, Catholic
1 bishop of Syracuse, N. Y., is dead.
No action will be taken by the sen
ate at this session on the omnibus
claims bills.
Negro contesting delegates were
not allowed to sit in the progressive
national convention.
Congress is to grant President Taft
absolute comrol in government of the
Panama canal.
John W. Russell announced that
Harry K. Thaw Is suffering from pto
maine poisoning.
The Martin eight-hour bill was fa
vorably reported by the house com
merce committee.
Woodrow Wilson was formally noti
fied of his nomination for president by
the democratic party.
Woodrow Wilson explained that
om.-sions in his speech of acceptance
did not mean opposition.
Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram W.
Johnson were nominated for presi
dent and vice president, respectively,
by the progressive party.
Senator Robert L Owen was re
nominated for United States senator
from Oklahoma by the democrats in
ti:e siate primary, defeating former
Governor C. X. Haskell.
Mrs. Daisie Opie Grace, acquitted
of the charge of having attempted to'
murder her husband to obtain $25,000
life insurance, is on her way to
Philadelphia to make her future
home.
I)r. George Ernest Morrison has
been appointed political adviser of the
president of the Chinese republic for
five years. Dr Morrison is the corre
spondent in Peking oi the I>oiidon
Times.
.V*-ar Watertown. X. Y.. Mrs. Gor
don Priest, :!2, w ife of a farmer, was
found murdered with a hatchet Her
head and neck were gashed, and a
sleeping baby, lying beside the body
unhurt, was spattered with blood.
Nine boy scouts were drowned by
the capsizing of a cutter off Shippy
Island. A large party of hoy scouts
was proceeding at the time to their
summer camp on the island. Several
other holiday fatalities were reported.
W. J. Morrill of the United States
forest service, stationed at Wash
ington. has been appointed to the po
sition of professor of forestry at the
University of Nebraska, according to
an announcement made through the
chancellor's office.
Francis Vernon Willay of Bradford,
England son cf Francis Willey, for
merly lord mayor of that city, was
arrested in Boston on a charge of
conspiring to bring English opera
tive.- into this country in violation of
the contract labor law.
A D Wolf of Chicago, son of a mil
lionaire shoe manufacturer, has sued
for reinstatement in the Illinois Ath
h'ie club. Wolf alleges that he was
expelled on account of his remarks
about c’nb officers. His attorneys
said he i-as thrown out because he is
a Jew.
Charles llilles. republican national
chairman. has challenged Governor
Wilson 10 state his position on the
leading political issues. Hilles de
clared that the fight was between the
revipblioan and democratic principles,
and not between Taft and Wilson.
Representative Levy of New York,
democrat, introduced a bill in the
bouse authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to use at his discretion the
money in the treasury in the general
fund, to reduce the tariff on articles
of general consumption and so reduce
the cost of living.
Three young men are in the regi
mental hospital at Springfield, 111.,
and a Sangamen county agriculturist
is in the guard bouse as a result of
the war game played by the Fifth
infantry. Illinois National Guards. Of
ficers of the regiment refuse to give
names or details.
John D. Rockefeller, ]r., is inter
esting himself in the Rosenthal case.
President Joseph Smith of the Mor
mon church said that all Mormon wo
men and children had safely reached
the United States from Mexico, but
that the men of two colonies. Colonel
Juarez and Dublan. had armed them
selves and would not depart.
Government discrimination in de
signating banks as depositories for
federal funds is gradually being cor
rected under a change of policy by
Secretary MacVeagh. who is increas
ing the number of depositories with
out augmenting the aggregate of the
government's deposits. This is being
done especially in small cities. In
towns with only two banks, the sec
retary is dividing the government de
posits in them to avoid discrimination.
Personal.
Rebels in Mexico appear to be
about ready to give up.
Congress will probably reimburse
Lorimer for expense of his trial.
Senator Owen and C. X. Haskell
concluded their campaign in Okla
homa.
Progressive party leaders outlined
their plans for the campaign.
Colonel Roosevelt was accused of
shifting on the steel question.
William S. Cowherd is the probable
nominee of the demotrats for gov
ernor of Missouri.
An exceedingly long declaration cf
principles comprises the platform of
the progressive party.
Mayor Harrison is offering his help
in settling street car striking diffi
culties.
General Leconte, president of the
republic of Hayti, was burned to
death In the palace at Port an Prince.
Colonel Roosevelt has planned an
ambitious campaign tour.
Voters in Missouri will have their
choice of five tickets to be voted for.
Representative Hobson’s plan for
the creation of a council of national
defense was sidetracked for this ses
sion.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Thomas B. Murphy
to b? registrar of the land office at
Willtston. N. D.
The three-ringed national contest Is
going to make much business as well
as much fun for the boys till Novem
I her days.
THE BEEFSHORTAGE
IT MAY CAUSE PACKING HOUSES
| TO SHUT DOWN.
THE CAUSES FOR SCARCITY
Removal of Fences From Ranges One
of the Big Factors in Making Beef
ers Hard to Secure.
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South Omaha.—South Omaha pack
ers, in view of reports received from
the northwestern cattle country, are
beginning to wonder where the beef
shortage and consequently high prices
will eml.
“Figures we received indicate a vast
shortage in the Uelle Fourche district
and in Montana and Wyoming, fully
bearing out earlier reports,” said Gen
eral Manager R. C. Howe of Armour
& Co. "It looks as though high prices
will not be the only bad effect of the
shortage. If these reports are true
we won't have enough beef to keep a
full force at work this fall."
A new explanation of the beef short
age and a cheering one, in that it
prophesies relief within the next
three or four years, was offered by
one packer. The activity of President
Roosevelt in ordering removal of
fences in the range country is this
man's manner of accounting for the
shortage; the increased production of
beef cattle by homesteaders and small
farmers, replacing the big rangers, is
his basis of relief.
“When the fences came down the
range cattlemen limited their breed
ing," said this packer. "I believe the
breeding was cut fully 50 per cent. Of
course, homesteaders took the land
and are breeding, but so far they have
not progressed. It will take three or
four years to get results. In the
meantime farmers everywhere are be
ing attracted by high prices and will
save and breed their cattle. So I ex
pect to see a normal production later,
but just now we are in the transition
period.
While the tariff of 1*A cents a pound
on dressed beef is a factor in pre
venting the importation to this coun
try of South American beef, a greater
element is the poor shipping facilities,
according to General Manager Howe
of the Armour company, who spent
two years in South America.
"There are first-class steamer lines
between South America and Europe.”
said Mr. Howe. "But between there
and the United States shipping is in
adequate and irregular It is neces
sary to freeze most of the meat for
transportation to this country, and
frozen meat must sell at a discount,
which eats up much of the difference
in cost between South American and
United States beef.”
Woman Wallops Her Husband.
Alliance.—Belaboring her husband
with a beer bottle proved a costly pas
time for Mrs. Gertrude Jackson, wife
of Tom Jackson, porter in an Alliance
saloon. Mrs. Jackson was fined $50
and costs in police court for whipping
her spouse. She was unable to pay
and was remanded to jail to lay out
the fine. "It's a big price to pay for
the privilege of a friendly family
row,” Mrs. Jackson told the judge.
Her hubby, however, badly bruised,
and cowed in body and spirit, does not
think so.
Hail Damages Corn.
Fairfield.— A violent storm visited
this section. Hail fell in large quan
tities. but the absence of wind pre
vented damage in town. A few miles
west the corn was badly injured.
Lightning struck the house of M. A.
Stephenson, knocking off a chimney
and putting electric lights out of com- I
mission.
Fall Killed Mrs. Lett.
Lancaster County.—Mrs. Carrie
Lett, wife of Postmaster John Lett cf
Benedict, died from injuries received
in a fall.
Warns Against Meningitis.
Lincoln.—Dr. Wilson of the State
Board of Health went to Harvard to
investigate a disease which caused
the death of two young children in a
Russian family. After examining the
three remaining children in the fam
ily, all of whom are sick with the
malady, he pronounced it meningitis,
similar to that which made its ap
pearance in southeastern Nebraska
several months ago. The authorities
have been instructed to see that every
effort is made to prevent the spread
of the malady.
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Nebraska City took the second game
of the series from Falls City on the
grounds of*the later. Score, 5 to 3.
The Hastings Reds blanked the
Pathfinders Tuesday by a score of t>
to 0.
Central City defeated the league
team of Polk in a fast game at Cen
tral City Tuesday. Score 5 to 4.
The Luxus team of Omaha lost an
other hard fought game to Beemer
Tuesday, ti to 5.
Bloomfield and Wayne engaged in a
battle Tuesday, in which Wayne won
by a score of 7 to 6.
Wayne won a fiercely contested
game from Bloomfield in the first of
the Chautauqua series at Randolph
Monday.
Hard hitting in the pinches won for
Auburn Monday by a score of 3 to 0.
The Kansas City Royal Giants de
feated I^eigh Tuesday in one of the
greatest and best games of the sea
son. Score, 9 to 7.
Battle Creek defeated Tilden Tues
day in an exciting game by the score
of 3 to 2. The features of the game
were the pitching of HofTman and the
borne run by E. Deering.
Another entire shut-out game by
Kearney, thiB time with Sew-ard, was
the feature at the Kearney baseball
grounds Tuesday. Lots struck out
seventeen. Score, 6 to 0.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Arrangements are in the making fnr
a big time in Harvard August 22 and
23, when the Clay County Firemen's
association holds its annual tourna
ment.
Julius Zimmerman, wife and fam
ily; Mr. and Mrs. William Zuhlke, and
William Roth, all well known old set
tlers of Cuming county, will embark
at New York on the steamship George
Washington for a visit to Germany.
Despite the fact that he was struck
by a .3S-calibre bullet fired from a
gun only a foot and a half away and
received the bullet squarely on the
frontal bone of his skull, H. D. An
thony, a negro burglar shot by H. B
Milder in Omaha, will live.
The West Point Milling company
has abandoned all hope of ever being
enabled to restore the dam at West
Point, which was completely destroy
ed by the floods of last spring. They
are installing an up-to-date steam
plant and in future will depend alto
gether upon steam power to run the
mill machinery.
Twisting the sheet of her bed about
her neck, after fastening the loose end
to the low post of the bed, Mrs.
Emma Currier, aged 33 years, of Doup
City, committed suicide at 2 o’clock in
the morning. Mrs. Currier has been
under treatment in the city for the
past nine days. A mental derange
ment was the cause.
On account of a real shortage of
harvest hands to care for the grain,
alfalfa and hay crops which are now
being cut, 800 Cheyenne county busi
ness and professional men, clerks,
county officers and stenographers, in
cluding many pretty girls, will go into
the fields and donate one day's work
in order to save the largest crops ever
raised in Cheyenne county.
Governor Osborne of Michigan has
asked for extradition papers for Gil
bert Hart, now serving a term in the
Nebraska state penitentiary for the
theft of a horse in Dodge county.
Hart is a man of more than 50 years
and he was on a parole from the
Michigan state prison "-hen he was
convicted of the crime in this state. A
similar offense brought about his un
doing in the Wolverine state.
Resolutions favoring the co-opera
tion of state and Jocal automobile
clubs of the west for marking routes
from Chicago to the Pacific coast were
passed at the annual meeting of the
Platte Valley Transcontinental Road
association at Kearney, according to
O. J. Pickard and D. M. Carr, who re
turned from there. This organization
was proposed by the Omaha Auto
Motor club and other organizations.
With a registration of ninety vet
erans, the largest for the opening day
in the history of the institution, the
fifteenth annual session of the Piaite
Valley District Reunion association 1
convened at the City park at Central |
City. H. G. Taylor, editor of the Non
pareil. delivered the address of wet- !
come and W. H. C. Rice, county at
torney. as a comrade made the re
sponse.
F. F. Lowenstein. a farmer living
four miles north of Kearney, lost four
valuable horses when they, along with '
others in a lot. gained access to a
wagonload of freshly threshed wheat,
each eating perhaps half a bushel.
The threshermen had just concluded
a field and were at supper when the j
horses broke a gate and got at the
wheat. A veterinary was called, but
the four animals, valued at over $200
each, had died before he could reach
the farm.
A big scheme to obtain state aid in
narrowing the Platte river from the
Loup to the Missouri, has been !
launched and a bill will probably be
presented at the coming session of the j
state legislature for the purpose. Ex
tensive experimenting with the Platte
has brought conviction that it will
serve good purposes and be everlast
ingly confined only when it is narrow
ed to a third or a fourth its present
width. The reclamation of lane
through this undertaking would be nc
small item.
At the State Tuberculosis hospital
in Kearney changes have been made
in the nursing staff. Henceforth none
hut aged women will be employed
The young girls in training in the
State Orthepedic hospital at Lincoln
will no longer be forced to serve a
three months' period at the tubercu
losis hospital. This change comes
about at the instigation, it is said, of
the superintendent, who finds the
young girls unsatisfactory and espe
ciallv that the work is distasteful to
them.
Surveyor E. H. Morey of Kearney,
who was appointed by the Minden
boosters to make a temporary survey
over the Minden route for the new
Dakota. Kansas & Gulf railroad, re
ports that there is no question in his
mind but that the Minden route is
equal to that through Hildreth, the
conditions being about the same. The
actual survey will begin August 12. A
letter has been reecived from Messrs.
Jenkins and Weaver, the London pro
moters of the new railroad, in which
they state that the deal with English
capitalists practically has been closed
and Mr. Jenkins expects to return to
Kearney with his family.
An appeal from the district court of
C’uster county was filed in the su
preme court by the Central Telephone
company of Broken Bow. which had
been sued for $10,000 by the father of I
William F. Coen, a 9-year-old boy who i
it is claimed by the father had been
killed by coming in contact with
wires of the company which ^had be
come sagged so that the horses on
which the boy was riding ran into
them, causing him to run away and
fall down an embankment on top of
the lad. killing him instantly. The
district court found for Coen in the
sum of $1,750.
Fntil recently the oil house at Have
lock was the only nodern one on the
Burlington railroad system. A few
months ago one was completed at
Galesburg. 111. The Havelock district
house is built of brick and concrete
The Nebraska district of the road
west of the Missouri river is supplied
by it with all oils needed for every
purpose on a railroad. The Havelock
oil house handles approximately 58,
000 gallons of gasoline a year. 260,000
gallons of fuel oil, 70,000 gallons of
car oil, 70,000 gallons of kerosene, 30.
000 gallons of mineral oil, 32,000 gal
lons of signal oiL
CONGRESS NEAR END
LENGTHY SESSION MARKED BY
IMPORTANT ISSUES.
MAY FINISH UP THIS WEEK
Much Work is Yet to Be Done. Some
of Which Will Certainly Go
to Next Session.
Washington.—Congress is about to
terminate a session that has now run
iver 250 days. Since the organization
if the government there have been
but seven continuous sessions of
great length. Measured by the stand
ard of the new laws enacted, this one
has not been fruitful of much general
legislation; but from the standpoint
of great issues fought out and great
policies outlined, it has been of more
than usual interest.
Political activities have helped to
prolong it; and political differences
between the house and senate, the
one democratic and the other con
trolled by an independent element of
the republican party, have served to
tie up appropriation bills and impede
the progress of much general legisla
tion.
Many huge annual appropriation
bills that should have become effect
ive July l, are still at issue between
the two houses. Minor legislation,
and important questions of general
interes' are to be laid aside in an ef
fort to bring about adjournment by
next Saturday, or at the latest by the
end of the following week.
The more important developments
that have marked the session, many
of them outside the record of general
legislation, are:
The decision of the senate that Wil
liam Lorimer had not been legally
elected senator from Illinois.
The beginning of impeachment pro
ceedings against Judge Robert A,
Archbald of the commerce court.
Abrogation of the Russian treaty
following the agitation in congress
over Jewish passport question.
Substantial defeat of the amend
ment of President Taft's arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and
France.
Notice to the foreign nations that
this nation will permit none to ac
quire sites in the western hemi
spheres, for naval supply purposes.
Approval of a legislative amend
ment for direct election of senators.
Decision of both houses in favor
of free passage for American ships at
Panama, in face of Great Britain's
protest that this would be a violation
of treaty rights.
Admission of New Mexico and
Arizona to statehood.
Veto by President Taft of tariff
bills passed by democratic progress
ive alliance.
Creation of a children's bureau in
the Department of Commerce and La
bor.
Increase of civil war pension
through the Sherwood service pen
sion law.
Questions Yet to Be Decided.
Important questions remain to be
settled this week between the two
houses, between congress and the
president. Many of them, incorporat
ed in the annual appropriation bills
are:
Proposed abolishment of the tariff
commission and the commerce court.
Battleship building program for
1913.
Reorganization plans for the army,
partly rejected by the president when
he vetoed the army appropriation bill.
Establishment of a parcels post
system.
Details of the Panama canal admin
istration law.
Crusade Against Rats.
Washington.—The government is to
become a modern competitor of the
Pied Piper of Hamlin as an extermi
nator of rats. But the magic of the
Pied Piper's flute is to be displayed
by the most improved, modern, double
action, steel jawed rat trap that
American inventive genius can fur
nish.
Battleship Nebraska Damaged.
Rockport, Mass—The battleship Ne
braska arrived here Sunday after hav
ing been damaged slightly Thursday
by running on an uncharted shoal
near Point Judith.
Sultan Intends to Abdicate.
Rabat, Morocco.—The abdication of
Mula Hafid, the sultan of Morocco, is
practically an accomplished fact. He
probably will leave Raba Rabat bound
for France.
Army Prize Fight Forbidden.
Sparta. Wis.—A prize tight schedul
ed for Camp McCoy Sunday and in
which thousands cf regulars and mili
tiamen were taking great interest,
was not allowed to take place.
Accused of Stealing Manuscripts.
Springfield. 111.—Two plays, entitled ,
“The Coward" and “Kate" proved so
attractive to Walter Klocker of Chi
cago that he took them with him to
St. Louis. Lieutenant-Governor Ogles
by issued a requisition for his return
to Chicago
Bully for Boston.
Boston, Mass.—The “Hub" claims
another record. Four days ago Mrs.
F. H. Seeley of Rochester presented
her husband with quadruplets—all
girls and all healthy.
Suffragettes Not Deterred.
London.—Warning that no punish
ment it can invent will frighten the
militant suffragettes into abandon
ment of forcible methods in their
fight for the ballot, was served on
the government by the Women's
Social and Political Union.
Uncle Joe a High Kicker.
Washington.—Showing a friskiness
hi3 years belie. Uncle Joe Cannon, at
a dinner of the congressional “Deg
Days Club,” defeated all rivals by
high kicking, four feet, fear inches.
J. P. DON’T KNOW AND HAS NO THINK
J. Pierpont Morgan, who knows a
few things about finance and art.
music and ecclesiastical history, got
back from Europe the other day.
He had been away about six
months during approximately the
period the Stanley committee haa
been occupied in taking testimony
and reporting. He has been up the
Nile, In the art and money centers,
and has done some yatching on his
Corsair, which arrived ahead of its
owner.
The yacht, with members of his fam
ily and grandchildren aboard, raking
the steamer fore and aft with marine
glasses, was at quarantine early in
the morning. Son Jack Morgan went
aboard the ship and found his father
at breakfast. Mr. Morgan’s niece.
Miss Annie Tracey, and her friend.
Miss Berwind. who were passengers,
were at the same table.
vlsgpia^HThe banker was very affable, ir un
communicative, when seen later. He
wore a gray sack suit and a small Panama with the rim turned up all
around and bit one of the Morgan dollar cigars and held his cane in the air.
He said: "Good morning" to the newspaper squad, but gave no chance for an
interview.
"Go away. Get out. Nothing to say. Wouldn't say it here if I hadi
'Way. Leave me alone,” was his answer to the request for a talk.
“Mr. Morgan, will you-"
"No. I won't You know I won’t Why do you bother me this way?”
He glared not so unpleasantly. Mr. Morgan's face was ruddy, showing
that he had been out in the sun.
The young man suggested to Mr. Morgan that he could get his salary
raised if he could extract an interview from him.
"All right How much will they raise it? I'll pay the difference. Give
you a check right now But tell me how much and then get out.”
"Mr. Morgan, you were pretty close to Emperor William?”
He whirled. "Who said so? Who told you that?”
"It was cabled to the newspapers.”
“Well,’' the Wall street power snapped, “what of it? For God's sake,
what of it?"
"W inston Churchill made a speech In parliament.”
"Did he. did he?” inquired Mr Morgan, becoming interested, and turning
upon the companionway. "What did he say? What did he say?”
"He called for 500,000 pounds and expressed an open fear of Germany.”
"Humphl” said the kaiser’s guest.
"Do you think that means war?"
“How- should I know?" he replied, without turning. “How should 1
know?”
"But you were, with Emperor William?"
“He did not tell me he was going to war. He didn't tell me anything
about it. See. here.” continued Morgan, putting his emphatic fist undet
the reporter's nose, "I don't know and I don’t think. I have got no think
Understand?”
THE RAPID RISE OF CHARLES D. HILLES I
C. D. Hilles. today Seld marshal of
the Republican forces, was, less than
four years ago, guarding the interests
, of several hundred orphans in a
juvenile asylum at Lancaster, Ohio,
of which he was the superintendent
His rapid rise in public life is a dra
matic story and intensely American
in its illustration of the opportunity
that, even in these days, awaits the
young man who does his job well.
From the hour of his renomination
President Taft steadily Insisted that
his secretary was the right man to
head the national committee, and aft
er a little consideration of the char
acter of Mr. Hilles the seasoned poli
ticians reached the same decision.
Who is Mr. Hilles and why has he
succeeded where his predecessors have
consistently failed? Ry what art does
he succeed as secretary to the presi
dent. recognized as the most difficult
official billet in Washington? Why
does the president prefer him as a
leader in the campaign? The answer to these questlohs. direct from the.
White House, is Hilles has "the poise and the touch.”
It was the Chicago pre-convention campaign that made Mr. Hilles a
national figure in politics. He had quietly organized the campaign in a
thorough and painstaking manner that permitted Representative McKinley,
the president's political manager, to start with an efficient organization.
At Chicago, where Mr. Hilles was the personal representative of the
president, he surprised friends and foes alike by his deep insight into every
move of the opposition and his ready defence for each attack.
His capacity for work kept him going until three and four o'clock In the
morning without his feeling it. He went about his work in his orderly way,
carrying it to his rooms with him in his suit cases, as if he were about ta
start on a long trip.
HETTY GREEN TO JOIN CHURCH
Mrs. Hetty Green, who is in her
seventy-eighth year, was baptized tbe
other day in the Episcopal faith in or
der to prepare for confirmation as a
member of the church.
The ceremony was performed in Jer
sey City by the Rev. Augustine Elmen
dorf, rector of Holy Cross Episcopal
church. Arlington and Claremont ave
nues, in the presence of Col. Edward
Howland Robinson Green, on whose
shou'ders have fallen much of his
mother's great business responsiblll
ties.
Father Elmendorf, as the clergyman
is called by his parishioners, is dis
tantly related to Mrs. Green, and for
five or six years he has been endeav
oring to Induce her to think less ot
things earthly. He kept his secret to
himself and labored diligently in his
role of missionary by writing letters
or carrying the message to her office
in person.
Father Elmendorf went to the Trln
ity building, in New York city where
Mrs. Green has her office, on the day
of the ceremony. Although the great
--- majority or woraers in the financial
district bad taken advantage of the Saturday afternoon holiday, Mrs. Green
was still busy, but as soon as she could straighten out everything she said
she was ready to go with the minister. Colonel Green had his car in readi
ness and the trip across the river to Jersey City on their spiritual mission
was made.
Several persons noticed Mrs. Green as she alighted from the car and
entered the rectory, but nobody recognized her. Even the sexton of the
church was kept in ignorance. The baptismal ceremony was conducted in
the church. Owing to the advanced age of Mrs. Green sponsors were not
required, according to the church laws, and Colonel Green merely acted as a
witness. The Greens returned to New York after the ceremony.
Mrs. Green will now prepare herself for confirmation, a ceremony that
will be conducted hF Bishop Edwin S. Lines of the New York diocese.
Queen Elizabeth's Pedigree.
One of the most Interesting curiosi
ties at Hatfield is the pedigree of Eliz
abeth, which is to be seen in the gal
lery. Those intrusted to make out
the document wisely discovered that
her descent could be traced through
every important person, and especial
ly through every beautiful person,
straight back to Adam and Eve. It
is on record that the Virgin Queen
highly commended the work.—London
Evening Standard.
Rumanian Amazons.
M. Vechiu, the superintendent of *
large farm at Buzco, Rumania, was at
tacked by an army of 50 women, says
a Bucharest correspondent. M. Vechiu
had refused to allow their cows to
graze on his land and to frighten the
deputation away he had fired over the
heads of the women. Infuriated the
milkmaids rushed upon him and it was
only by the intervention of some shep
herds that he was rescued from their
veng*' ice.