Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1908 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Mr. Taft’s Successor. General Luke E. Wright of Tenn., who succeeded William H. Taft as governor general of the has been selected to succeed him as secretary of war in Mr. Roosevelt’s cabinet. The appointment, it is said, came as a tribute of the president to the good work done by General Wright in the Philippines. Secretary Taft himself is said to have had much to do with the selection, holding a high opinion of the Tennesseean. An Important phase of the case lies in the fact that General Wright has

been a Democrat, although serving in Important positions under the Roosevelt administration. General Wright was a Confederate soldier, enlisting when he was seventeen years old. His wife Is a daughter of the Confederate admiral Raphael Semmes, who commanded the Alabama In the memorable fight with the Rearsarge off the coast of France. General Wright recently resigned fate post as American ambassador at Tokyo. to which position he was appointed after leaving the Philippines.

A Mara Fad. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was talking to a member of the famous Bible class about economy. "But economy, like everything else, may be carried to extremes—may bo made a mere fad of,’’ said Mr. Rockefeller. “There is a farmer out near Cleveland who makes a fad of economy. Every time he drives into town he carries a hen with him tied to the seat of his buggy. “A friend rode with him one day and found out the use of the hen. When at noon the farmer lunched under a tree he gave his mare a feed from a nosebag. The hen, set on the ground, ate all that the horse spilled from the bag, and thus there was no waste." Half th* Audience Was On.——An old story of Henry Miller, the actor-manager, has been revived. Thera was an almost empty house at one of his matinee performances in Brooklyn. A schoolgirl sat in an orchestra chair, and there was a young man in the front row of the balcony. The scene is the deck of a yacht, and as Henry Miller emerged from the cabin and gazed into the empty gulf before him he spoke his first line: “The sea is purple. Have you. too, noticed it?” An instant later a voice came from the balcony, “Well, I don’t know about the lady downstairs, but I can see it an right.” Mr. Bryan’s Only Son. William J. Bryan. Jr., only son of the Democratic standard bearer, is more interested in journalism than politics. He is now a student in the Nebraska State university at Lincoln and

( on'the completion of his studies in- ; tends to enter the journalistic field. Young Bryan is eighteen years of ago and is a good looking and athletie youth. As a traveler he has had a large experience, having accompanied his father on the latter’s trips abroad. In Russia he met Count Tolstoy and his , family and was also received by the pope In Rome. As the son of his fa--1 ther he hobnobbed with royalty, and. ' bring a dose observer and possrarint 0 retentive memory, be can converse entertainingly of the great tusuuapl I he has met. *

LUKE E. WRIGHT.

WILLIAM J. BRYAN. JR.