The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 06, 1913, Image 3
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SWEPT BY STORM
6IEAT DAMAGE DONE DT IT IN
THREE STATES
FOUR KNOWN TO BE DEAD
» , ,,.
Alabama, Georgia and Florida Feel
Effects of Cyclone Accompanied by
Torrential Downpour—Twelve Fe
male Prisoners Injured in Collapse
of Building on Georgia Convict
Farm.
Four persons are known to have
perished, several to have been injur
ed and property valued at several
hundred thousand dollars to have
been damaged by a severe wind and
rain storm which swept Alabama,
Georgia and Florida Thursday.
The only known fatalities occurred
at Omaha, Ga, where three negroes
were killed when a building In which
they were working collapsed during
the height of the storm, and in Cren
shaw County, Alabama, where Rufus
Summerlin, was killed in a building
collapse.
At Milledgeville, Ga., many build
ings were demolished. Twelve fe
male pr» oners were injured w hen
the State structure at that place col
lapsed. Forty children in the Hope-
well school, near Millledgevilie, had
a iniraculous escape when the build
ing was blown down. Only one
child was injured.
Three children were seriously in-
jur< d when the Bridges School, near
Cordi-ie, <ia , was blown down.
Thei e were more than T," in the
S'hool house when the accident oc
curred.
Mane buildings were blown down
and i..i damage sustained in
L ai A.uUama. Thu hwavieal loaves
are reported to be in the city cf
Greenville* * and Crenshaw and Butler
Count tes
The property damage In Flordla
according to late reports, was not
aer ion a A 65-mile gale swept the
section of the State in the neighbor
hood of Jacksonville No loss of life
was reported In that vicinity.
Mayor Maplea, of Omaha. Oa . Is
sued an appeal laat night for flnan
clal aid to the poor and homeless,
saying the deatruction of property *s
very heavy and many persons aio
homeless.
THESE HAVE PAID THE PKKTi.
Seven Mcvhan KuArrs killevl During
the louit Century.
With the Willing of M.idero and
St'.r*/ th<* depuMd heads of the
Mevwaii Republic, in Meiico City, the
death of those who have paid the fa
tal price for ruling in Mexico is In
creased to seven names Just a lit
tle more than a century ago Michael
Midalga y Costilla, the parish priest
of I tolores, aroae as the • liberator ’
of Mexico and clutched control from
the feeble hands of the Spanish vice
roy
An obacure country priest. Hidalgo
conspired with hia own parish In the
State of Guanajuato. In 1S10, and In
the fall of that year, when he rang
the bell of the church to call the peo
ple to war, an army of 5.000 rallied
to his standard He pressed on to
ward Mexico City with his constantly
increasing numbers until he had a
following of 1 mi,imm) patriotic, but
undisciplined, men.
\ force of only 6,Out) veteran sol
di* rs of Spam delivered a crushing
defeat in January. Isll, and drove*
Hidalgo to th>* mountains, when* he
waned gm nlla warfare until he was
c lUai.t and -hot in ,) i,U , l v ] |.
I In* Cm ot rulers o! Mexico winch
hcVo ■ |;''t* i.''*i last to the title's
Pi" cell" t hits opt lu'd is as follow
M n aael v Costilla, "liberator. '
1 M I.
.lost* Matin Morelos y I’avon, Pres
ident. 1 s 1 5.
Francisco Xavier Mina, President,
1 SI 7.
Augustin de Iturbide, Emperor,
1 S LM.
Maximilian, Archduke of Austria,
Emperor, IS07.
Francisco I. Madero, President,
i o id.
Jose Pino Saurez, Vice-President,
1913.
The heroic and tragic story of Cap
tain Scott and his brave companions
who died on their way back from the
south pole does not stand alone in
the history of arctic and antarctic ex
plorations, for the call of the north
and south poles has lured many to
their death. This truth detracts in
nowise from the heroism of Scott and
his party that met their death in a
blizzard, nor does it lessen in the
slightest degree the inspiration and
pride which the story of their suffer
ing produces, for notwithstanding
their said end they were victors in
that their goal was won.
Rain Causes Great Loss.
At Lob Angeles, Cal., one life was
lost and much damage was wrought
by the rainfall of the last two days,
the greatest in the history of that
region. Street car lines in some sec
tion of the city are out of commis-
aion, and 60,000 school children
were given another holiday became
of the floods.
THE RACE OF CAR
NUMBER NINETEEN
A STORY IN TWO PARTS.
Part I.
There was trouble in the office of
Peck & Morgan, makers of the Peck
Motor Car—“the king of the auto
mobile world,’’ to quote from the
inch advertisements written by Mr.
Peck. Mr. Peck was glaring at the
youthful Mr. Morgan, and 'Mr. Mor
gan .was looking, in resentful gloom,
at the red-faced, white-whiskered
Mr. Peck.
“No, sir! I don’t put another cent
into this blamed business,” snapped
Mr. Peck. “Who wants our automo
bile? Nobody. We lose money ev
ery day we pretend to keep on mak
ing ’em. A little later we’ll be bank
rupt; 1 won’t have the disgrace of
bankruptcy against my good name.
Pm for selling the business now—or
giving it away.”
“It’s easy for you to talk about
giving it away—you with your mil
lions to fall back on.” said Morgan,
bitterly.
“If I put any more In, as you want
me to, I wouldn’t have ’em to fall
back on,” retorted Mr. Peck.
“You’d have a few more if you’d
spend fifty or a hundred thousand
»*
"Oh, cut it out’ I'm tired of that.
Haven’t I been telling you since we
started up two years ago, show me
results and I’d come up with more
money.”
"And haven't I been telling you."
Morgan returned sharply, “come up
with more money and I’d show you
results'’’’
Mr. Peck glared, but thought, si
lt nee the te st expression of his con
tempt. Together the last sentence of
each defined the great difference be-
tucfti the partners the difference
that during the two years had galle i
and re-*raihed Morgan's enterprise
like a sharp and tight-drawn bit -
the difference that now brought the
partners to the verge of quarrel Mr.
Reck was the business product of a
past business generation; even when
making his millions out of the Peck
Sewing Machine he had never ventur
ed had never led his business, had
always followed it Four years be
fore. after two bad years, which he
read as a warning of ruin, he had
craftily sold out hla business and its
coming failure to a Mr Tucker, ann
It was the great secret bitterness of
his life that Mr. Tucker was making
money faster than he had ever done.
Two years of atupld letaure had made
him eager for the old recreation of
business, so when young Mr Mor
gan. a mechanical engineer of repu
tation. had come to him with a pat-
. nt sparking device and a proposition
for putting n new automobile on the
market, he had invested his old bus-
*i***-a rules and about half enough
capital in tiie new enterprise, keep
ing a throttle hold on the venture by
re-, rv mg to himself fifty-one per
r. nt of the stock
Morgan mastered his rising anger
Mr Peck, through his money, could
turn failure into success, and. fur
thermore, Mr Peck was the father
o f Pock "We still have a chance to
make the car a success If we play
the chance right,” he resumed, as
calm as hia double reason for calm
ness could make him. "The car is a
good one. and deserves to succeed;
that much is true
"Oh, I don't know We thought it
was a good car. But if a thing is
good it's bound to succeed of its own
accord; everybody wants it, you
can't make it fail."
' I bog your pardon, a good thing
doe< not succeed just necauso it's
goo!. You've got to convince peo
ple that it’s good the best there i.-,
T on can; got to get it on the pub-
I ■ • OI,._oe ud ill 1 h* pub!i« eve and
k< a it there. Til ell it'll Mleceed*."
" \{ P aualr. ’" sniffed Mr. p* ,*k.
Morgan’s fact' llu-hed, but !o* wen*
i> i. e pusedly : "\ow, it we could
make some ' ig si Bn ae could pull
oT -:>!!;.* big advertising scheme
"Advertising' Rot!”
"Advertising is what made Tuck
er."
Mr. Peck's face darkened, hut he
dared not retort. That was the worst
(;f his bitterness over Tucker’s suc
cess -it had to be restrained in fear
of the world's laughs. He was silent
a moment, then said, in his Peering
voice: “Leading up again to that
American Cup Race, I see.’’
"I am; and why not? There’s not
a swifter and more reliable touring
car made in this country than our
fifty horse-power. A racing car em
bodying its-good points, 1 bet, would
hold its own with the best of them.
If the Peck car won the cup. or got
second or third place, we’d suddenly
be somebody, and orders would pour
in oh us. If you'd put up twenty
thousand for this——”
Mr. Peck uprose, snorting; "Shut
up; I'm tired of that. And let me
hand you some information. Young
man, you’re a business idiot!”
Morgan saw that his chance was
gone; his wrath broke its restraints.
"And permit me to remark, my dear
sir, that you are a business corpse!’’
Mr. Peck gasped. All his life he
had bullied his business associates
and never before had one bullied
him back. “What’s that! WhaPs
that!” He smashed his pudgy fist
down on his desk. “Bff God. we’ll
see who’s the live member of this
firm! I get out to-day, and we’ll see
»
"If you’d done that long ago!”
Mr. Peck sputtered. Words he
could not utter.
Morgan’s anger had risen to reck
less defiance. “Why don’t you sell
your stock to me?” he taunted. “I’ll
build that racing car, win, and show
you what a live business is.”
“Sell it to you! You haven't got
a dollar to pay for it with!”
‘Til give you a note; if there’s
nothing else to pay with, I can sell
my patent.”
Mr. Peck’s dark look turned to a
snarling, cunning grin. “It’s yours!
If I sold to anybody else, he might
bring in some capital, and some
brains, and you might succeed. Run
ning it alone’ you’ll bust. Lord, but
I’ll be glad to see that! A business
corpse, am I? We’ll see! It’s worth
less than nothing, but you can have
it for five hundred, a thousand, two
thousand, whatever you please!”
“Two thousand, then,” said Mor
gan. He touched a button and im
mediately a stenographer appeared.
Mr. Peck looked on glowering while
consideration being a note for two
thousand dollars. Perhaps tie was
not wholly pleased; perhaps, for all
bis bluster, he had not expected to be
snapped up In this wise. But he
grimly, signed the document when it
was presented to him, and grimly
slipped Morgan’s note into his wallet.
He rose and put on his hat. “I
had thought of going on a vacation,"
he said, cuttingly, "but I guess I’ll
stay here so's to be handy for your
funeral.’’
Morgan did not«retort; he had re
gained his self-control.
“One fact, of course, you under
stand," Mr. Peck went on, "you've
been seeing a lot of Miss Peek. Well,
no daughter of mine is going to have
anythUig to do with a fool and a fail-
r.t e. You set that down ! ’’
Morgan preserved a show of indif-
f< rt nee, hut there was sudden con
sternation within. In the outburst
of wrath against the father he had
completely forgotten the daughter.
At the door Mr. Peck lifted his
hat with mork courtesy. "Pon’t for
got to send me an announcement of
the funeral," he said; and with a
bow and a sneer, he went out.
When Morgan had declared to Mr.
Peck that he was going to build a
racer he had spoken out of the brav-
uda of the moment; but as he sat at
his desk looking his new situation
over, his cool reason told him that
to try for the American Cup was his
only chance of snatching success
from failure. He considered his re
sources for such an effort; if he were
to mortgage to its limit the factory
equipment (the building was a rent
ed one», and borrow and beg dollars
wherever dollars could be begged
and borrowed, he could keep up the
appearance of running the factory
for three months longer and could
build a car for the race. The odds
against success were heavy But
Morgan was the sort that fights to
the last hope, and past it. He would
take the chance
All the while that Morgan was
studying this side and that of his
slender business chance, part of his
mind was engaged upon his chance in
a very different enterprise. By the
end of the afternoon It was the sec
ond alone that he was considering.
He knew that Mr Peck would tell,
doubtless had told, his daughter of
the quarrel, and that the account
would be a story of favor and for
bearance on one side, and Insult and
ingratitude on the other. If he want
ed Miss Peck to continue thinking
of him the way he hoped she was
beginning to think, he must clear
himself in her eyes, and the sooner
he did this the better for her
thoughts of him. So, with Inward
11 .Tiildiiig at his daring, he called her
up just before leaving the office and
asked if he might see her that even
ing.
The vi.i*" that came to him over
tlio. Wive. vv;us ehilly., vw-y-v-hiily ;—"I
11;t V 1 * Mil e II g :| u e K1;I ■ ] 11.
Mot'!;:tj) was dumb for several se".
* mis "To-monow evening, then 1
"1 shall he busy then, too."
E" filled with a dizzy sickness
li.T excuse was as plain in ;ts mean
ing as plain words would have been.
But he. wanted the plain words.
"Then you don't want to see me?"
There was a brief silence. "I don’t
think so," said the chilly voice.
Morgan hung up the receiver. His
pride would not let him beg for an
interview.
The following two days Morgan
spent in New York. He returned will
fifteen thousand dollars, and wit'
his honor pawned to his friends and
with the next five years of his life to
the money-lenders. When he enter-
e<' the office, there was Mr. Peck at
his desk. -Morgan gave his old part
ner a cold look, but said not a word.
“Just came down to see about my
mail,” Mr. Peck muttered, somewlia
abashed, but gruffly. Mqrgan dit
not answer-. He wrote a check fo
five hundred dollars, the amount o
the entrance fee to the Cup Rac<
and dictated aletter to the Cup Rac
Commission.
When the stenographer had gom
out Mr. Peck scowled over at .Mor
gan. "So you’re going in for tha
fool race,’’ he sneered.
"It seems so,” Morgan said quiet
ly. He went to a closet and was soon
in greasy overalls and jumper.
“Where’d you get that money?'
demanded Mr. Peck, as Mhrgan mov
ed toward the door leading into the
factory.
"That, air, I believe Is none of
your buaineaa."
Mr. Peck's face reddened. “D'you
think I’d aell out for a measly two
thousand, ana tnst two thousand a
note that ain’t worth a postage
stamp?”
"I don’t think anything about It—
I know you did.” And Morgan walk
ed Into the factory.
That day the building of the racer
began. The big race was at the end
of September; this was the end of
June—three months in which to
build the machine, tune it up and be
come its master. The frame and
many other parts of their fifty horse
power touring car could be used; but
the engine—Morgan had decided it
should be ninety hosse-power—had
to be made entirely new, and like
wise all the parts of the driving gear.
There was work a-plenty for the half
dozen most skillful men he had se
lected to help him, for every part had
to be made with infinite care, tested
with infinite care, and fitted to its
place with the infinite care of a sur
geon working in the brain. For all
the heartache in him, Morgan enjoy
ed these days of the car’s growing.
It was a long untasted pleasure to
work in freedom of the domineering
methods of Mr. Peck—though that
gentleman continued coming to the
factory daily. Morgan’s joy was the
creative joy of the artist. The car
ou which he labored every day and
far into each night was mere than a
piece of mechanism that might save
him from ruin. It was the child of
his brain and skill—the masterpiece
of his talent.
By tne first of September it was
done—a long, squat, dingy creature,
whose lean lines suggested the ath
lete trained to supreniest fitness. At
the very break of each morning Mor
gan was on the roads about Milford,
testing his creation. His mechanic.
Jack Henderson, the best workman
in the Peck & Morgan shop, though
hardly more than a boy, was equallv
enthusiastic. "Well make ’em
hump," he said.
Three days later they were settled
ri th* ir garage, w ith enough spare
parts to build another machine, and
with two weeks before them in which
t< become acquainted with the
course. At the drawing to fix the or
der In which the twenty contesting
machines were to start in the race,
nineteenth place fell to Morgan, and
nineteen was painted on the front,
■Ides and back of his car in white
figures two feet high. The first
morning he had the racer out for
practice he was content to take
things easy around the thirty-mile
course, which on the day of the race
had to be circled ten times; but the
second morning he let her out on the
last round, with Henderson keeping
time. "Thirty-three minutes," Jack
announced as the car flashed past
the grand stand on the finish. "That's
going some!"
"Some.” agreed Morgan, "but,
man' —when she really goes'
It was the day of the race. While
the heaven was still lighted only by
the stars the roads leading to the
course were processioned by thou-
sinds of glare-eyed touring cars, and
the New York trains were adding
tens of thousands to those who had
spent the night in houses, barns,
tents and the open fields along the
way. When the first trace of dawn,
a faint, gray mistiness in the east,
came at half-past four, tne course,
wonted thus early to be without a
soul save perhaps for a market gar
dener or two jogging sleepily town-
ward, was crowded like a great city
artery at the hour of home-coming.
Half an hour later, when the mist
was faintly reddening into a promise
of the sun, the course was thirty
miles of bustle, of suspense.
Five o’clock found Morgan's and
the nineteen other racing machines
in a waiting line before the grand
stand. A sense of solitariness crept
upon Morgan. Each car'« nianufac-
t irer stood beside his machine talk
ing to its driver and giving him on
roun'gTtr pats ou (!:*■ look, and
friends T'cTr ronCnp up to sh.i’ *• tin
drivers hand and wish him vu-tory.
and h r* and tin re hand!;* r* hm‘>
wore h* ng v.av‘'d from th* 1 grand
. f
stand .Morgan gave a .,i t : -k. bun
gry gl."!i*e at this gnat inclined
plane of humanity, th(ii n turned his
eyes to their former straight-ahead
gaze; he had expected no friend, and
he had seen no friend. Few persons
had ever hoard of the "king of the
automobile world", and the few had
wondered at its maker's temerity in
entering it in any race at all, let
alone such a race as this.
"We don't seem to be exactly the
favorite, do we Jack?" Morgan said
drily.
"I guess there ain't many in th;
bunch bet tin’ even money we’ll win
"No; about a million to one is th
odds." Morgan's left ban ! came fro:
the wheel and gripped Jack’s am
"But we've got to win, anyhow!
he said fiercely. ‘Ttiderslund’."
"We’ll win if she only s - icks u
gother,” Jack assured him. grimly
"for, oh Lord,'She's got speed to giv
away!”
i here was a stir among the grout
f officials at the bead of the line o
laehines! half-past five, the hour o
tart the race. “Clear the course!
ang out an order. It was taken m
>y hundreds of voices and move**
lown the track in a great billow o;
sound, and tne crowd which hai
blackened the road parted, leaving
between a brown ribbon of oiled
earth. The next minute the engine
>1 car No. 1 began booming, and
pitting from both aides of its bonnet
arts of blue flames. The starter*
counted off the seconds, and at “Go!"
he car lunged forward. A great
cheer rose frem the grand /tand, and
i
ARRIVES WITH REMEDY
DR. FRIEDMAN AND HI8 TUBER-
CTLOHI8 01'RE.
WILSON’S CABINET
♦
6ITAH fill BE TIE REV SKB'
TAIT Of ITATf.
Beys He is Not Mercenary, But
Wishes to Help the Whole World
With Invention.
The United States government took
official recognition of the claim of Dr.
Frederick Friedmann to the discov
ery of a cure for tuberculosis when,
by order of the surgeon general of
the United States marine hospital ser
vice, Dr. Milton 1’Orter was sent.
meet the doctor on the steamer Krou
Prinzessin Cecelia.
At the request of the government
surgeon, Dr. Friedmann, after half
an hour’s conference on board the
steamer on the trip up to New York
from quarantine, consented to turn
over a quantity of his bacilh to be
tested by the government and to de
monstrate the efficacy of his cure be
fore physicians of the hospital ser
vice.
Dr. Friedmann, who comes to this
country at the invitation of Chas. E.
Finlay, a New York hanker, who.
hopes the physician will be able to
cure his son-in-law of the disease,
declared that Ins remedy was not a
secret and that he purposed to make
known "to all the world" the method
by which it was created and the man
ner in which it was administered.
It consisted of bacilli taken from
a turtle into which tubercular bae-
oilli from a human til ing had been in
jected, lie explained. "1 have been
working upon the cure for four yeais
and in tiie last two and a half years
I have treated from 3,500 to 3,000
patients. ' le* assette-.
"How many 1 have absolutely cur-
el 1 can no; estimate, hut their num-
b( r ha> i tin into the hundreds. The
remedy u;ev all forms of tuberculo
sis except *iich cases as are quite
hupelest that is, ou the point of
death The process is a slow sue,
hut tiie eTe< ts an* to be seen two or
three we.-ks after inoculation. The
time when an absolute cure can be
said to be effected is a matter of
months. The method of administer
ing is 5o per cent, of the cure.
"I want all mankind to benefit by
my discovery. I have already turned
over some of my bacilli to the Ger
man government, and I am very glad
to turn it over to the American gov
ernment."
Dr. Friedmann denied that he had
been offered 11,000,000 by Mr. Fin
lay if he would cure 95 out of 100
patients in this country. He admit
ted that he was to receive a substan
tial compensation in the event he cur
ed the banker's son-in-law, Ray Paris
of this city.
"I am not mercenary’,” he said
••An I care about is sufficient reward
to enable me to demonstrate my cure
to the world ”
OTOER PLACES FILLED
'W'
kept pace with the car as It whizsed
between the lines of tvordering thou
sands.
The first fifteen cars, cheer-follow-
ei, had gone flying at minute inter-
\c.ls toward the flushing east, when
Jack suddenly seised Morgan’s arm.
■'Bomebody wants you.” he said, and
nodded toward a box in the grand
stand.
In the box. one In the lowest tier,
Morgan saw a girl in a long tan coat.
She smiled and a gloved hand beck
oned to him. Instantly he was out
of the car and beneath the box,
touching his begoggled leathern
skullcap that was tied beneath his
chin.
She leaned down over the railing
till her head was on a level with
his, in onh r that her voice might b**
he trd abox** the terrific fusillade No.
16 had mi -! begun. "So you were
not going to speak to a friend?" six*
*!* tnanded.
"A friend ' ’ he said, dizzily, touch-
in.’ his cap to h**r aunt and mule *ii
the rear of tire box. “I didn't Kii'iw
’ * : were he***. And i didn’t know
ye;: verc mv friend "
"Not yo11r friend?’’ Her eyebrow i
arched with surprise. “Though 1
suppose 1 shouldn't be, alter the way
'•’jit ve treated me.”
Hie way I've treated ysti!” gu 1 ")-
e ! -Morgan, as No. 16 roared
“Yes.” Her face- became nevere.
'"“liink of how you served me on ’Ye
LeVphon’*. I held the receiver t',1
tiiy arm ached, calling to you, wuit-
• g for yon to say something more-
hut you'd cut me off. And then you
haven't come near me for thrie
nenthr.’
He could only stammer an 1 share.
A dazzling smile drove the sever!
ty from her face. “But see how 1
have forgiven you. I’ve stayed up ail
night and come here just to see you
win.”
“You want me to win?” he cried.
“Yes," she said, and her face grew
very steady and she held out a little
gloved hand. He showed his grimy
palm and shook his head. She lean
ed further over and the little hand
slipped into the palm. He gripped It
tightly.
The hand withdraw, fell upon his
shoulder, and gave him a light push.
‘You must go; your mechanician is
getting frantic.”
Morgan touched his cap and
sprang to his seat just as No. 17 shot
icross the tape. “Jack,” he said be
tween his teeth, “I’ll bet a million to
one we win!”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
William Jennings Bryan, Josephus
Daniels, William G. McAdoo and /%.
K. Burleson Definitely Decided Up
on for Cabinet IMaces, According
to High Congressional Authority.
It was stated Tuesday night at
Washington in high Congressional
quarters close'y identified with the
incoming adnmlstration of Presdent
Wilson, that the following Cabinet
appointments had been determined
upon definitely:
Secretary of State. WHMam J. Bry
an of Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury, William f
Burleson of Texas.
Secretary of the Nary, Josephus
Daniels, of North Carolina. —- -
The foregoing names and positions
are said to have advanced entirely
beyond the state of conjectures of
gossip and become finalities in the
for. hcoming Cabinet list. Other
places in the Cabinet are said to be
reasonably settled with the excep
tion of the portfoliloB of war and ag
riculture.
The name of Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer, which has been
prominently mentioned in connection
with ihe Attorney Generalship now
is definitely eliminated. It appears
that a Cabinet position was tendered
to Mr. Palmer and declined the ex
pectation being that lie would remain
*n the House of Representatives to
b<* in n s* use Hu* personal represent- 4
ativo of Mr Wilqpn on the important^
legislation about to be formulatad.
This plan was carried Into partial ex
ecution late Tuesday, when the an
nouncement of Representative Borle-
son that he would resign the potfUoa
of chairman of the Democratic Housa
caucus at an early date was coupled
with the announcement by Hoaae
leaden that Mr. Palmer would sae-
ceed Mr. Burleaon as chairmaa of the
caucus.
Other names which have bees
prominently mentioned for the At
torney Generalship, but which now
are definitely eliminated from this er
other Cabinet posit lone, are
lor Walker, of New Jereay. i
reeentative Henry of Tesaa
cellor Walker was highly
and It Is probably dae to hie own
wishes that his name ia no loafer
considered. The determination ef
Representative Burleson, ef Tesaa.
for the Postmaster Oeneralishlp had
the neutral effect of elimlaatlag Mr.
Henry's name from farther eoaalder-
ation, he also being from Texas.
Information from certain soarcee
gave assurance that Col. George W.
Goethsls, chief engineer aad chair
man of the Panama Canal
slon, Is under constderatioa for
reUry of War.
Home close friends of the
administration have felt that a law
yer should be chosen as hedd ef the
war department in view of the legal
questions Involved relating to the
Panama Canal, the PhlllippInM aad
other important matters, and they
point to the line of lawyers who hat*
headed the department, such as Root,
Taft, Dickinson and Stlmson. Col.
Goethals’ familiarity with the Pan
ama Canal, it is declared, however,
has given him prominence in consid
eration for this portfolio.
Mr. McAdoo in the recent cam
paign was a prominent figure and
was In charge of the Democratic
forces much of the time during the
illness of National Chairman Mc
Combs. He lias been associated with
some of the foremost business opera
tions in American history, including
tin* building of the so-called McAdoo
tunnels under the Hudson River in
N* \v York.
Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C.,
has long been Democratic national
committeeman from nl* Stare. He
is the editor of the Raleigh News and
Observer. In the laat Cleveland ad
ministration Mr. Dani?Ys was In
Washington as chief clerk and ap
pointment clerk of the inferior de
partment under Secretary Hoke
Smith, now Senator from Georgia.
Representative Burleaon, of Avis-
tin. Tex., has served nearly T> years
in Congress, having first been elect
ed to the 56th Congress, and he was
re-elected to the 63rd Congress last
fall. He was one of th^ staunch sup
porters of Governor Wilson in the
House of Representatives from the
beginning of the pre-con vent Ion con
test last spring and took a promi
nent part in the election campc’gr.
In Congress his chief work has been
aa a member of the appropriation*
committee.
Women Work for Charity.
The American Woman’s Exhibition
which opened at Cleveland, O., Mon
day at the Central Armory, is one of
the biggest affairs of its kind ever
engineered Jn this country. It Is for
the benefit^Sf charity and
by society women of C!
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Mistakes everybody makes gad
therefore one jikogM be ien lent lb kin
judgment But tMnnnn irho,
made a mistake. I det1b»>trti
himself In the way of
serve