Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 183, 16 August 1908 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1908.

WEDDING FIGURES 111 POLITICAL GAME Politicians Speculating on Effect of Katherine Elkins Marriage to Duke.

FATHER MAY BE DEFEATED HILLBILLIES OF WEST VIRGINIA ' NOT USED TO HIFALUTIN PEOPLE OTHER WASHINGTON GOSSIP. By Ralph M. Whiteside. Washington, Aug. 15. The West yirginia politicians who are important enough to have their headquarters In Washington and to live at the New WHlard or the Raleigh when in town, are speculating now upon a very im portant question. It is nothing more nor less than the effect of the marriage of Miss Katherine Elkins to the Duke of the Abrizzl in October, on the much-bemuddled political situation in West Virginia, from which State Senator Elkins is sent to Washington to alt In the Upper House of Congress. The wise ones among the politicians fear that the newspaper stories of the marriage, of the millions which the house of Elkins is heir to and the accounts of ancient lineage will have an evil effect upon the plastic minds of the hilblllles in the inmost recesses of the little mountain State. The folks who wouldn't know Steve Elkins If they met him, but who have been voting for Steve's candidates for years and years, may give up the party with the hifalutin' masters and go over to Democracy or Prohibition, fear the men higher up. The simple-minded folks In West Virginia are not used to dukes and earls and lords, and in that region in the southern end of the commonwealth, where Kenova marks the boundaries of Kentucky and people tote guns, it might prove disastrous to the ticket. The Elkins family is mighty well thought of in West Virginia. The people who make up the bulk of the population are not given to many airs. They would rather see a candidate ride to town wearing boots than to have him borne in a special car, and when it comes io marrying into the royal circle, they cannot comprehend what it all means. Miss Elkins may have the honor to report the State for Bryan, but the situation Is precarious at any rate, with two State Republican conventions and 1 two nominees for Governor. In Wash-1 Ington the thing Is being talked of In j mighty serious tones.

During the hot days, when the Po-! There will be about thirty-five memtomac looms blue and cool in the bers In the German official delegation ahady valley between the Virginia hills . to e congress.- The leaders will be and the dog wagon is chasing home- j Dr. Koch, Dr. Martin Kirchner, mediless and wifeless curs across the I cal adviser and councilor In the Prusbroad asphalt ways for which Wash- sian Ministry of Education, and Proington is famous, the Ship of State is j fessor of special pathology and therafrequently left to drift along for a few ; peutics in the Royal university at days with no one at the tiller. She ! Wuerzburg. Bavaria, floats like a derelict, with perhaps The American Minister at ChrisLuke Wright in command for a space, ! tlanla has informed the Department and then Mr. Root may run over, but of State that the Norwegian governgenerally . speaking, the good barque ment has appointed as its official delis left to the tender . mercies of the i egate Professor Francis G. Harbitz of winds. Une National university.

Never yet has a low, rakish craft suddenly loomed into shape on the uppermost rim of the horizon and borne down upon the good old State ship, for there is always someone near, and Mr. Roosevelt is only as far away as Oyster Bay. On Thursday, General Wright, the new Secretary of War, who succeeded Mr. Taft,t arrived back In Washington, after a period of three days, during which the helm was utterly unmanned. Every member of the crew was away aomewhere. Some were in New England, seeking the coolest zephrys that aeph through the Green Mountains. Others were in the north, and others elsewhere. The cabinet meetings, as a matter of consequence, Were few and unimportant. . Everybody in Washington is talking politics, and those who are not, are willing to. There are just two topics of conversation: politics and the jweather. It has nearly got to the point where the man who says: "Is it hot enough for you?" may be shoved Into the same class as the man who aays: "Well, who's going to be elected?" Generally speaking. It is pretty well settled in Washington who is going to fill the presidential seat. The Washington correspondent who has never met Bill Butts, the Oyster Bay sage and friend of the president, has missed one of the opportunities which come only to fortunate men. The correspondents, save those who are regularly employed in Washington, have drifted away, some north and others south, all watching with eager interest the great political battle which is already at the skirmishing stage. Several of them get over to Oyster Bay for a brief space and there they had the opportunity to see the friend of the president, William Butts, Esq., aged In appearance, wise in his generation and an ex-clam digger by occupation. Bill follows the trend of events In the local paper, and in the pleasant sumCHICHESTER'S PILLS Jjr-v - mi! PUUOH'B BRA MX A lltcI Ak your Ununtatfer a box, tale uh Biu Rlbooft. Tttk m other. Bur f yemr V (Nifl Ask W 11 1. n"KS.TR-3 W " ' :,1S t'.TS'.T.HEK PURE CIDER VINEGAR. PURE WHITE VINEGAR. PURE PICKLING SPICES. The Best it the Cheapest. Phone 2292. HADLEY BROS.

mer evenings he foregathers his clan of acquaintances before Moore's store and they discuss the weighty questions of the nation and settle them to their own satisfaction. Bill met Mr. Taft when he was at Oyster Bay and was so delighted that he held the subject open for consideration to the exclusion of

all others for three evenings hand running. Bill was seated in front of Moore's store where they have moved headquarters of the nation. In the second floor, in a small room, the questions of moment are settled, and it necessarily lends an air of importance to the building which It does not have under ordinary circumstances. For instance no one looking at Mr. Moore's general emporium where it is possible to negotiate anything Itom a package of pins to a barrel of molasses, would think it housed the workings of a world power. Bill was not at all awed as he sat on a soap box in the cool of the evening and spat with precision into the middle of the road. "They shore have changed things and ways of running things in my time," he said plaintively. "Them canned conventions and dummy delegates hev plum got my goat as they say over to New York. Howsumever, I alius stand by the old idees and I'm plumb going to settle this thing before I cast my ballot who might steer this mighty nation into another planet. No siree, just leave It to Bill and wo will all be prosperous and good times will be wits us alius." The solemn declaration ended as they mostly did. In his enthusiasm Bill neg'ected to keep a wary eye on Old Man Carr's two young 'uns, and very soon he was sorry for his oversight. With deftness they removed the box from Its position between Mr. Butts and the earth, and he tumbled into the soft turf, still declaring for jestice and good times. GERMAN SCIENTISTS TO ATTEi CONGRESS Tuberculosis Meeting in Washington to Be Noteworthy. Washington, D. C, Aug. 15. Dr. Robert Koch, the distinguished German scientist, the discoverer of the tubercule bacillus and of the cholera germ, will attend the international congress to be held In Washington in September as an official representative of the German government. Dr. Kock is at present in Japan and will stop in Washington on his way back to Germany. About a year ago Dr. Kock went to Uganda under the auspices of the German government to make a special study of the African disease known as the 'sleeping sickI ness. SAVINGS BANKS ARE TO BEC0NSI0ERED Will Afford Important Topic at Bankers' Meeting. Denver, Aug. 15. The annual con vention of the savings bank section of the American Bankers Association will be held in Denver on Sept. 2Sth Many members of this section are also members of the trust company sec tion and will attend that meeting on the following day, while all will proba bly participate in the general convention of the association on Sept. 30th and Oct. 1-2. An interesting program has been arranged for the meeting of the savings bank section and few papers will be read as the postal savings bank legislation overshadows at present all matters pertaining to savings bank. A committee which has been working on this postal legislation subject, will make its report at this meeting. MUNCIE FEELS HAND STANDARD Oil Octupus Hands Out Ultimatum. Muncle, Ind., Aug. 15. For the last six weeks the streets of this city, which have been sprinkled with oil, have gone unsprinkled and the dust In many places is six inches deep. The Standard Oil company has refused to purchase oil of local well owners if the latter continue to sell crude oil to the Muncie sprinkling contractors. The Standard has offered to sell the contractors oil at $1.57 a barrel. Local owners of wells have been selling their oil at 99 cents. The city authorities have remonstrated with the well owners who say the Standard will take all their oil if they don't sell any to the sprinkling contractors, and will take none- if they do, and they can't afford to fight the company. Mart EiXBJt: Gold Medal Flour is th beat for making everythJne. Sabrix.

A Peep Into the Life Luke Wright,

Is the Second Confederate Veteran to Get a Place in the Cabinet Under a Republican Administration His War Record Proves Him a Hero Is Amply Able to Care For Many Duties Placed Upon His Shoulders.

Washington, Aug. 15. Since his accession to a cabinet place in a republican administration there has been renewed interest in the history of Luke Wright, of Tennessee, democrat and four years a confederate soldier. "Gen. Luke Wright" has long been the familiar designation of the new secretary of war. Those unacquainted with the facts of his career have naturally been inclined to ask when and where the distinguished Tennesseean obtained the title of general, and many of them would be surprised to learn that he was never a military general. He was never a militia offi- ! cer and the only war In which he serv ed, that between the states, 1861-1865, ended when he was but nineteen years old. Incidentally it is remarked that no state has produced so many generals as Tennessee. It is not very well known outside of the state that it is the habit of Tennesseeans, abbreviating the formal title for their state's at torneys attorney general to call general. So it has happened that this title applied to Luke Wright has caused guessing and confusion in the minds of those who did not know the Tennessseean. Until he was appointed secretary of war, the highest officer of the administration from the south was John G. Capers, of South Carolina, commissioner of internal revenue, who succeeded John W. Yerkes. of Kentucky, who resigned last autumn. Luke Wright is the second confederate veteran to go into the cabinet of a republican administration, the first being David M. Key. also a Tennesseean who "was in 1877 appointed postmaster general by President Hayes. Key had been a lieutenant colonel in the confederate array. He did not remain long in the cabinet, as he was soon transferred to the federal circuit bench. In the two Cleveland administrations there was only one ex-confederate in the cabinet, Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, secretary of the navy. Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas, attorney general In the first Cleveland administration, was Identified with the confederate states, but not in a military way, being a senator from Arkansas in the confederate congress. Fought Throughout War. Luke Wright started fighting under the stars and bars at the very beginning of the war, when he was but fifteen years old and kept it. up until the last armed organization in gray surrendered. He was a student at Bingham school, North Carolina, when in the spring of 1861 the Southland was ablaze with ardor for war at the same time the northern heart was fired for the fight. He was swept along in the tide of martial enthusiasm and enlisted as a private in a battery commanded by his uncle, John. W. Eldridge, who afterward became chief of artillery in Gen. A. P. Stewart's corps. In the same battery was his brother, Eldridge E. Wright, as second lieutenant. Wright became captain of the battery and was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro. Almost at his side when he fell, fighting with him, was young Luke Wright, not yet seventeen years old. Veterans recall Capt. Eldridge Wright as one of the most bril liant and promising young officers of the army. Luke continued in the artillery to the close of the war. After the Tennessee campaign his battery was sent to Mobile, where with it he took part In the long defense of the Gulf City.

He was for a time in the Georgia cam- j Philippines, and the admiration of the palgn, was wounded in the head at j President was signalized by Wright's Jonesboro and was a month in hospit- appointment as Ambassador to Japan, al at Mason. He fought with his bat- j President Roosevelt rarely permitted tery at Kenesaw Mountain, where ho visitors to the White House from Tensaw killed, struck down by a shell, the nessee to leave him without saying

"fighting Bishop," Gen. Leonidas Polk. Luke Wright was second lieutenant when his battery surrendered with Gen. Dick Taylor at Meridian, Miss. The Wrights were thoroughly committed to the southern cause. His father TO FIGHT PLAGUE Congress on Tuberculosis Will Consider Ways And Means. TO BE HELD NEXT MONTH. Washington, Aug. 15. Widespread Interest is being taken in this country and abroad in the International Congress on Tuberculosis which is to be held in Washington in September under the auspices of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The gathering will be unique in several respects. It will be the first congress of the sort to be held in this country, and it will differ from the earlier Congresses in giving greater prominence to the nonmedical aspects of the campaign against the white plague. The outlook will cover the anti-tuberculosis movement as a whole, and emphasis will be laid upon the humanitarian and social factors of the problem as well as upon the medical, surgical and pathological aspects of it. A central committee was appointed for each State and for each of the countries abroad at the beginning of the preparations for the Congress. A number of these have organized and have formulated definite plans for the representation of their respective States or countries in the Congress and in the exhibition that will be held

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Judge Archibald Wright, although not a belligerent, went with his boys into several battles, and the secretary of war cherishes as a souvenir of his father's devotion to the confederacy a red saddle blanket he used with the artillery. Proves Himself a Hero. A J. . a ... me ciose or tne war young Wright took a course at the Unlversi ty of Mississippi, after which he en tered the law office of his father, who was a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was elected Attorney General for the important Mem phis circuit when he was only twentyfour years old and disclosed the superior legal talents which have al ways kept him at the front of the Tennessee bar. The valor he showed as a boy soldier proved he was of real heroic stuff when in both the fearful yellow fever epidemics of 1873 and 1S78 he remained in Memphis and with his own hands nursed unfortunates who were unable to leave the stricken city. A man of exceptional gifts and of vigorous nature, he did not hold aloof from politics and was prominent in both the local and S'-ate councils of the Democratic party, although he never sought office. He was- conspicuous among thosa Democrats who stood for paying the State debt dollar for dollar in the famous campaign of 1S80. When the issue split the Democrats, the debt-paying candidate being John V. Wright of Maury county, who died recently In Washington, and the debt-scalers' candidate being S. F. Wilson, of Sumner, now a member of the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The dissension allowed the election of the Republican candidate, Alvin Hawkins. Luke Wright when his party again dividedthis time over the money question, being of the Cleveland or gold standard wing, which was in the minority in Tennessee as in all the Southern States ceased activity to participate in politics and devoted himself to the practice of his profession. It was while thus engaged he attracted the highly favorable attention of the Judges on the bench, and it was his signal ability as a lawyer which eventually led to his being drawn prominently into official life. Goes to Philippines. It was shortly after it was announced, early in 1900, that President McKinley intended to appoint a nonpartisan commission for the government of the Philippines, that the late Judge Eli S. Hammond, of the Western Tennessee Federal district, met Luke Wright one morning and asked him how he would like to be a member of the Philippines Commission. The suggestion was smilingly dismissed as but the passing idea of a partial friend. A little later, having occasion to appear before the Federal Circuit Court sitting at Cincinnati and presided over by William H. Taft. of Ohio, and Horace H. Lurton, of Tennessee, the latter advanced the same suggestion which had come from Judge Hammond. Again it was not seriously considered until Judge Lurton, pressing the point, said: "Taft wants you to go on the commission with him." When Luke Wright went back to Memphis he consulted his family and his friends with the result that when the formal proffer of the post came he was ready to accept it. President McKinley was happily impressed by the exceptional ability of the Tennesseean. President Roosevelt was likewise impressed, as was Judge Taft by the superior executive ability of his associate, who succeed ed him as Governor General of the something handsome about Luke Wright. There was nothing surprising after all, under the circumstances, that President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft should agree that Luke Wright was the man to succeed to the war portfolio. in connection with it. The activity of the local committee has been preceded in nearly every instance by official action by the Governor of the State authorizing the participation of the various departments of state goveminent in the undertaking. This has been done by the Governors of fortyfour States, and other Executives have signified their intention of taking up the matter at an early date. The Federal government is arranging to take part also, seven of the nine departments having expressed a desire to be represented. LINES TOJE RESTORED Survey to Be Made by Commissioners. Ottawa Aiior 15 Announcement . . , J , probably, will be made soon of the appointment of Dr. W. F. King, astronomer and Otto H. Tittman, chief of the geodetic and coast survey of the United States, as commissioners to determine boundary lines from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under the recent treaty. The International boundary, in spots where the marks have become obliterated or lost, are to be restored by substantial monuments on land and by buoys on water. Va Cold Modal Flour for your pastry. GFWY.rTXF

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FIGHT WILL CENTER Ifl LARGE CITIES Indiana Campaign to Be Marked by Unusual Features This Year. THE FARMERS TO ESCAPE.

DEMOCRATS FEEL THAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH NOTHING IN RURAL DISTRICTS, SO MOVE ELSEWHERE. Indianapolis, Aug. 15. The large cities of the state and not the rural communities, are to afford the battle grounds for the campaign. It looks now as if the hardest fighting would be conducted In Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Evansvillc, Terre Haute and Indianapolis. In these centers both parties will fight early and late for control. Taking the fight from the country districts and torcing it into the cities is the democratic, not the republican plan of campaign. The republicans are accepting it only be cause it is being forced upon them. They have met attack wherever made. Preferably they would wage the battle among the farmers, but the democrats see no hope of success outside the cities. The farmers are well satisfied with conditions. They are well satisfied with the administration of state and national affairs. Questions of law enforcement and Sunday closing which have disrupted the cities, have not disturbed the country districts. For these reasons the democrates have abandoned the farms and established their war camps in the cities. The democrats have named John E. Hollctt as chairman of the finance committese for the Kern notification meeting at the state fair grounds on August 25. Members cf the committee are making a canv?ss of the city for funds with which to moot the expenses of the demonstra'iioj. The other committees will be announced In a day or two. LUKE MYSTIFIES WASHINGTON PEOPLE Is Dark as Night Twenty-four Hours of the Day. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 15. Robert S. Fulton, a rancher living near Harrington, Wash., 52 miles southwest of Spokane, reports one of the most remarkable phenomenon that has ever mysti fied the people of Lincoln county in the discovery of Swamp Lake, which is now as dark as night, 24 hours of the day and one day after another. The air is perfectly dry, but from 10 to 25 degrees cooler than in the sunshine. Fulton recently traveled with a two-horse team along the shore of the lake and was in utter darkness for more than three-quarters of a mile. He thought it was a fog, and, as the horses did not take fright, he did not become alarmed, but his little daughter was .over-awed and cried loudly. The darkness covers the lake which is a vast swamp and extends from 80 to 100 feet out from the shore. Many theories have been advanced by students cf natural phenomena and experts, but the majority of people who visited the lake returned non-plussed and mystified. All the natural conditions appear to be normal except that it is dark, when there Is light all around. L ESCAPES INSTANT DEATH C, C. & L. Workman at Peru Struck by Engine. Peru, Ind., Aug. 16. John Vinson, a laborer employed with the section eane on the C. C. & L. railroad, had a narrow escape from instant death Friday morning about 9 o'clock, when he was struck by a fast moving freight train and hurled several feet. He was rendered unconscious, and suffered a broken collar bone, a sprained hip, a broken arm and was otherwise badly injured. Mr. Vinson was working with several other men on the road about fifteen feet east cf Broadway. Vinson never moved, and was struck on the hip and arm by the end i of the pilot. He was thrown several feet, but, luckily, to the safe side of the road. The left arm was broken in two placces, above and below the elbow. TO RECEIVE BIDS. Trustee Wants Transportation School Children. for Greensfork, Ind., Aug. 15. Trustee ; Boyd bag decided to iet the contracu j for tDe transportation of pupils from j the rural districts to the Greensfork ; township graded school to the lowest responsible bidder. The bids will be received not later than next Wednesday, August 19th at this offloe. Orange blossom was adopted for bridal wreaths because the orange branch bears fruit and flowers at once and is thns a sign of plenty. K ir3 sTkl For Indigestion. J'v Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart. Dipets what you eat.

Feeding Human Stoves in Hot Weather Meat produces heat. It is all right in winter, but the more you eat now the more you will feel the hot weather. These are Mapl-Flake days. Here you get the maximum nourishment and the mini mum heat.

A great deal of food, as you know, goes toward producing heat. Fat foods are heating; lean meat is heating. But whole wheat is not. At least one meal a day, in this weather, should consist solely of Mapl-Flake and fruit Don't expect other cereal foods to take the place of Mapl-Flake, for they cannot. Mapl-Flake is the one food thaf s all food, because it all digests. We spend 96 hours in preparing it four times as long as we need spend. The Food with the

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We shall always have food fads that last for a little time. But wheat in this form is enduring. There will never be a better food prepared in a better way. Never a food more enticing, for we cook MaplFlake in pure maple syrup. Children will beg for it after they get it once. Pleise serve it to-morrow morning. Telephone your grocer now. You surely want to serve the food that children like best, when it's the best food for them. SSB6

THEATRICAL TRUST WILL BE PROBED Attorney General Has Queer Case Before Him. . Washington, Aug. 15. And now It's the theatrical trust that is to come under the searchlight of the Department of Justice. The national capital happens to be the center of war between rival amusement interests, and the '.inder dog which of course means somebody outside the firms whose names have become famous with the play and vaudeville going public has applied to the usual friend in time of need. The Department of Justice has promised to look into things. It Is alleged that the big theatrical partnerships and corporations Klaw & Erlanger, Frohman, the Keiths and Proctor and a score more of theatrical managers constituting what is known as the trust have formed a working agreement by which competition from outsiders Is to be stifled. It is the queerest proposition yet put up to Attorney General Bonaparte and his trust-busters. Just how 6uch a combination may be regarded as In opposition to the interstate commerce j act or as being In restraint of trade is a problem fcr the lawyers and the courts yet to determine, but the blind goddess typified by Uncle Sam's judicial agencies has been set to the task of an investigation. PARROT ASSOCIATES WITH BLACK CROWS Black Feathered Birds Made Much Ado Over Him. Woodbury, N. Y., Aug. 15. Edward Dodds, who has a farm on the Salem pike, noticed a great flock of crows making a great commotion, and In their midst somebody he thought was whistling and talking at a great rate. He saw a parrot in the center of the flock apparently enjoying himself immensely. When the crows were frightened off the parrot went along, too, but seemed 1 to have difficulty in keeping up with I his friends in black. Korfo 1 For Indigestion: Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart. Digests what you eU JtrsL- : i i i . ..,

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We steara-cook it for six hourscure it for days toast it in ovens at 400 degrees. All this is done to separate the starch particles so the digestivs juices can get to them.

Every food specialist knows thai this is essential. So do the maker who don't do it. One must choose between making a food cheaply and making it right. We choose to make it right. And our choice will be yout choice after you know. Maple Flavor WISE HORSE BURIES HIMSELF IN GRAIN Pulls the Slide in Elevator With His Teeth. .' - 'Washington, Pa., Aug. 15.- "Bob," a wise old gray horsa belonging to tha Jones & Laughlln Steel company, freed himself from the halter, walked over to the grain chute at the end of the barn, and with his teeth polled out the slide which 300 bushels of grain in the granary above. He was practically buried under the grain. The stable boss arrived In time to rescue his steed. Special Prices on Our Display Stand Every Day. Backed Up With Four per cent Cash Coupons. PETER JOHNSON CO. MAIN ST. Special Prices In Heywood Go-Carts DUNHAM'S Furniture Store 627-629 Main St. Men's good work or dress shoes, tbe best shoe on tne market lor the money. J. WILL MOUNT SON 519 Main. St. We Have a Large Stock of Sewer Pipe and Fit filings in our yards and . can fill orders ; promptly. d Mather f v Bros. Co.

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