Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 11, 1915, Page 2

Man Who Succeeds Bryan : Has Been Power Behind Throne For Some Time Washington, June 11—Robert Lansing, successor to John Bassett Moore as counselor of the state de- partment, became secretary of state ad interim when Secretary Bayan's resiznation took effect. He is a son-in-law of John W. Foster, sec- retary of state under President Har- rison, a life-long democrat, and has been an international lawyer for ! many years. While there is much gossip al- ready as to the president’s possible selection for the secretaryship. it is the president’s plan to make no im- mediate appointment. It would not be surprising if he made no r‘hangr‘l in the present status of the depart- ment’s personnel for two or three months. Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the interior department has been frequently mentioned as a possible | successor to Secretary Bryan, but thebelief ex that he will not be chosen on account of his Canadian birth, and the fact that the presi-| dent would find considerable diffi-| culty in finding a man to take over Mr. La important work on the CHEER UP TALK | By Walt Mason | “Yes, things are bully,” Willyum Woolly, who ruds the ging- send store; “we keep things moving, and trade's improving, and no one should feel sore. 1 tell no hoary and whiskered story about my busi- ness care, for I'm kept skipping— T've just been shipping three gross of Belgian hares. I know some deal- sayvs ers are chronic squealers, they grieve ‘and grunt and groan, and| people shopping don’t like such yawping— they've troubles of their own. They bring their money to one whose sunny and hopeful line of bunk inspires the hearer, so 'l get nearer the buyer's hard earned plunk. Persuaded fully,” says Col- onel Woolly, “that sour things draw no flies, T keep on grinning, in man- ner winning, and find the scheme is wise. We smile and rustle, the watchword's ‘hustle’ around this moral coop, and trade is humming; the folks keep coming to buy my birds’ nest soup.” There's naught, I'm guessing, much more distressing than Grouchy Merchant’s place, where clerks and bosses seem total lesses, with tears on every face. ‘What though your troubles be thick as stubbles when done? Be cheerful liars when earn- est buyers come in to blow their jof the interior de; harvesting 1§ Alaskan railway and other projects artment. ! 1t is considered entirely probable he will make no shift in his cabi- net at all, but will choose a new man to fill the vacancy. In well-informed quarters it is considered very likely that he will retain Mr. Lansing as secretary. To ' do so wotlld require search for an- other counselor, a post difficult to fill. Mr. Lansing has prepared mem- randa for all important notes that have gone to belligerent govern- ments since the European war be- zan, and is looked upon not only as | an expert in internatioal law hull as a clear thinker and adviser. F‘or| many years he has served on bound- y commissions and tribunals. lln. |is comparatively youn2 and well ac- iquainted with government policies. He has won the admiration of the president and Mr. Bryan by his loy-' alty to the secretary of state as his superior officer. On many occasions Mr. Lansing has submitted memor- anda expressing views differing from those of Mr. Bryan, but he has tactfully avoided embarrassments. Loui: rved in the Spanish War, and was a coloney on the staff of Gov. Herbert S. Handley, of Miss- ouri; is married and has two daugh- ters, Martha and Catherine; was elected to the Sixty-second Confress, and re-elected to the Sixty-third Congress. JUNE 11 IN HISTORY —_— 1812—A great skirmish of calvary in Estremadura, Spain be- tween the English under General Slade and the French under General Lallemand . 1849—Great excitement in Paris and a proposition to impeach the president for his aiding the cause of the Pope, signed by Ledru Rollin and 141 others. 1864—A union force under General Washburne was met and de- feated by Confederate troops near Corinth, Miss. 1866—Very destructive fire at Mar- quette, Mich,, over 100 buildings burned and $1,- 000,000 property destroped. 1900—Appeal of the Chinese Em- peror to the Powers for the deposition of the Dowager empress. BRYAN'S HANDKERCHIEF: SOLD mon, TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS Leonidas Carstaphen Dyer, publican, of the city of St. Louis, was born on a farm in Warren county, Mo., June 11, 1871. His parents were James Coleman Dyer and Martha Emily (Camp) Dyer, both having come to Missouri in its early history with their parents from the State of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively; was educated in the public schools, Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, Mo., and the the law department of the Wash- ington University, city of St. Louis; is a lawyer, and served as assistant circuit attorney of the city of St. SIGHT UNSEEN, BRINGS $1.50 Was King of Greece Stabbed By Sk B 5 i 25 P —— PAULS BIG DEAL His Queen? wins Fortune and 2 Bride | | New York, June S—A Paris cable | to the Tribune gives further details of the report current there that King Constantine was suffering| from a knife wound. The state- | ment is made that the King’s illness | is due to a tragic episode which oc- | curred in April during a heated' discussion between the King and his! consort, Queen Sophia, who is a sls—} ter of the German Emperor. | Notwithstanding her conversion | to the Orthodox Greek Church upon | her marriage, Queen Sophia remains passionately devoted to the policies of her imperial brother and to the! cause of Germany. A very animat- ed conversation, it is stated, took place in the King’s library one even- ing, which developed into a violent nuarrel, during which the Queen, | whose occasional outbursts of im- petuous temper are well known to all about her, seized a sharp pointed metallic paper knife and scarcely realizing what she was about to do, being carried away by her hot- temper, plunged the paper cutter in- to her husband’s side. The blade, according to the Trib- une correspondent’s informant, pierced the pleura and grazed the lower lobe of the King's lung. The | Queen instantly expressed the deep- est sorrow at the consequences of her impetuousity, but the King, nat- urally viewing the episode on its serious side, earnestly desired that the Queen return to her own family. The truth was hushied up and the King, as he would have done in any case, gallantly attributed to in- fluenza the pleurisy that set in ing to the wound. This dramatic explanation of King Constantine’s malady is de- clared by the relator of the episode to be absolutely accurate. ow- BRITISH GOVENMENT’S ANNOUNCEMENT STOPS RIOTING London, June 9.—With the Government’s announcement that enemy aliens in Great Bril-i ain would be either interned or repatriated, all anti-German riot-| ing stopped and the fickle public attention turned itself to other matters. With the public clam- or thus sidetracked, the govern- ment likewise quickly turned to other matters, and after a day or two the sudden accleration in| the interment of aliens slack- ened. The military authorities are naturally reluctant to have thrust upon them suddenly any larger number of interment cases than can be handed easily in the camps already established, and 11—At a conducted Franklin, Ind., June parcel post auction sale Re-!by the local ladies’ auxiliary of the [First Presbyterian Church, a photo- \graph of former President Taft brought $2.50 and a handkerchief of \former Secretary of State Bryan $1.50. The auction was attended by \about 700 persons and nearly $100 was raised for the auxiliary’s enter- prises. The Taft and Bryan articles were in original packages and their na- ture was unknown until opened by the purchasers. They had been con- tributed by the two prominent nat- ional gures upon request of the la- dies of the auxiliary. Try Us With Your Next Order of GROCERIES WE HAVE A FRESH, CLEAN STOCK OF ALL STANDARD GRORCERIES, AND MANY FANCY ARTICLES THAT WILL ASSIST IN YOUR ARRANGEMENTS FOR A SATISFACTORY TABLE. WE INVITE A SHARE OF YOUR PATRONAGE, AND ARE SURE WE CAN PLEASE YOU. PROMPT DELIVERY, THE LOWEST PRICES CONSISTENT WITH QUALITY, AND THE MOST COURTEOUS TREATMENT, ARE ASSURED THOSE WHO TRADE TRIAL. ADAMS BLOCK WITH US. GIVE US A Murrell, The Grocer PHONE NO. 123 Post Office Cafe Now Open ] Everything New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date Regular Meals 25c¢ Special Sunday Dinner 35¢ L] Give us a trial, and we know you will be pleased there has been no move to devel- op mushroom camps which would soon have to be con- demned as unfit. It is also re- garded as unwise to permit any- thing in the nature of overcrowd- ing at camps already in ex- istence. No steps are to be taken“to charter additional ves- sels for purposes of alien inter- ment. So the actual fulfillment of the govenrment’s promise to intern or repatriate all enemy aliens is likely to be realized only after considerable delay. Such aliens as surrender for internment are disposed of as rapidly as possi- ble, but there has not yet been any combing o fthe highways and byways, and only in excep- tional cases have known Ger- mans or Austrians been called upon to give themselves up. A number of men ad women who are within the possible scope of the internment order are being dealt with by the Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans in Dis- Itrcss, Those who have thus far sought the assistance of this {committee have been mostly wo- men, some of them British with German husbands. A number of them are people who were rendered homeless as the result anti-German rioting. When these homeless ones are not im- mediately required for intern- ment they are given food and lodgings in a building provided by the committee and under the nominal supervision of the po- lice. Sedan, Kan., is just an ordi- nary country town of some 15.- 000 people. But it has at least one real business man. His name is J. H. Edwards. And now listen: Edwards spends two thousand dollars with his local papers in advertising—ev- ery vear! Has it paid him? Well, he went to Sedan a few vears ago with but little capital. He now owns a magnificent store, a nice home and a big farm. “We value our advertis- ing enough to make it a part of our assets,” he says. “It is the live wire of any business, and a person can judge pretty well the amount of energy behind a bus- Iincu of the kind and amount of advertising that business is do- in_;':" When facts like the above spring up every now and then all over the United States, publish- ers cannot help wondering what it is that blinds the eye of the average man to his possibilities with printer’s ink.—Tallahassee True-Democrat. Through-Well Timed Specula- tion in Grain. By GEORGE ELMER COBB. “Get out and stay out!” yelled old Peter Griscom, irate and aggressive. “And never come back again!™ he yelled additionally after his manager that had been, but was never to be Paul Burton took it all quietly and without resentment. It was a rude dismissal, but he was used to the old fellow's furious ways. “I am sorry, Mr. Griscom,” he sald simply. “Certainly, however, I have not exceeded my instructions.” “Exceeded!” shouted Griscom. “Why, you've acted like an idiot. Here 1 leave you, on the first vacation of my lite for two weeks. I come back to find that during my absence, for the first time in six years, wheat jumps up to 80. You knew that I had forty thousand bushels in the elevator, bought at 63. Think of it! Sixty- eight hundred dollars profit! And you sat by like a stoughton bottle, and let the golden chance of a lifetime go by. Here wheat has dropped to 65, and may go lower. Oh, I'd like to fight somebody!” “You left no orders to sell, sir,” re- | minded Paul. “I won't talk about it. Get ont. Stay out!” and old Griscom slammed the door of his office, and Paul Burtra ‘went his way. “If it wasn't for Edna” said the young man to himself, “this would be almost amusing.” Yes, Edna was an element to con- sider. sight of her bonny face. Now a flare- up had come. He was “fired"—igno- miniously, and the girl he had secretly loved was a thousand miles away from him, so tar as any hopes of win- ning her were concerned. Paul Burton, grain clerk in a Chica- g0 board of trade house, had come to “I'd Like to Fight Somebody.” Easton early in the spring, ordered by his physician to get employment where the air was pure and sylvan life a boon. He had just fitted in as bookkeeper for the small country ele- vator business of Peter Griscom. ‘When the big price bulge came he was aware that the chance to make a small fortune was at hand, but he dared not act on his own initiative. Paul hung around Easton the reat of the day, hoping for a sight of Edna. ‘The next morning he went to another village. By the end of the week he had made a circuit of all the county towns, but had not found employ- ment. “The reserve cash is getting decid- edly low,” he said, as he went to his room at a little village hotel one night. “Well, I've got my old rugged health back, anyhow. 1 suppose it's the humdrum of the city again. After Easton! And after Edna! Ah, me!” Thoughts of the ideal to whom he! had never told his love kept Paul wakeful. He found he could not sleep, and got up and sat by the open window, watching the moon and con- tinuing to think of the sweet, innocent face that it seemed he could never forget. Suddenly his attention was called to a noisy tumult in the next room. Two persons had entered it. They seemed to be strangers on their way to the city after a long western trip. Paul could not help but hear what they said. As he did so his mind be- came intent. “We'll wait till we get to the city before we write up our report?” asked one of them. “Yes,” came the definite reply. “There are so many notes and memo- randa to look over, it will take time and a quiet place. I say, there will be some scrambhline when the govern- ment issues the,wheat crop bulletin.” “I should say so,” came the answer. “Why, in the two states alone that I covered the wheat yleld s twenty per cent. short.”. “I have the data for three states,” remarked the other. “It shows up, with blight and rust, nearer thirty per cent.” “Prices will go up.” “Yes, that is certain.” And then the two men went over a lot of details immensely interesting to the iistener. Paul realized that un- expectedly there had been disclosed to him facts regarding the coming crop report that were of immense Beware. Beware so long as you live of judg- :&hpwble by appearances.—La Fon- e. Phoebe’s Only Chance. Cats at a cat show are not scored on their rat catching records; there fore it would be of no use to enter Phoebe. She’ll have to be shown in & steel and wire trap exhibition.— Toledo Daily Blade. She had been away with her | paon more than friendly. father on his vacation, and more than A happier man still, however, was once Paul's heart had hungered for a | pay]l a month later. The government value. He was not an intentional eavesdropper, but he could not escape receiving the valuable information. With daylight he was out on the strects. He took the first train for Marshall. He recalled a shrewd, sharp trader living there who seemed just the man to impress with the im- portant knowledge he had acquired. Before noon this man, John Lane, was in his confidence and a sort of | provisional co-partnership was ce~‘ mented. Mr. Lane was to furnish the | capital. Paul was to engineer the gcheme. It was inevitable in their| opinion that wheat would make 3 tremendous jump in the markets of the world when the shortage report was made public. It now became the mission of Paul ; to buy up all the grain he could. A great many, discerning this, held en for good prices, and the quotation rose in the district. One day Paul went to Easton. He boldly faced the lion in his den. In a businesslike, matter-of-fact way he intruded on Mr. Griscom. “I have come to buy your wheat,” he announced, “if it is for sale.” “How much?” inquired the old man, ungraclously and suspiciously. “Because you fancy my being ‘a stoughton bottle’ lost you a big profit,” observed Paul, “I will offer you 80 cents.” “What!” shouted Griscom incredu- lously. “I mean it,” nodded Paul, planning to make the trade his own person- ally. “As it is, I advise you to hold on to your wheat. It will go still higher.” This old Griscom would not believe, but he was so delighted at his bar- gain that he actually invited Paul to dinner. That meant a sight of pretty ¥dna. When Paul left Easton that night he felt happy. He had regained old Griscom’s good will and Edna had report came out, sending prices kiting. Paul and his partner were prepared to take advantage of the wildest grain market known for years. Dollar wheat electrified the farming world, and Bur- ton & Lane sold at top notch price and made a fortune. The papers were full of the success- ful coup of the enterprising partners. Dropping off the train at Easton one day, Paul met with a most gracious reception from old Griscom. “Well,” sald the latter, “I wish I had held on to that wheat.” “You got a pretty good price for it, as it was,” reminded Paul. “That's 8o,” agreed Griscom. “See here, Mr. Burton, I was rather hasty when 1 let you go. I suppose you are too well fixed now to think of coming back?” Paul thought of Edna, and silently mused. “As a partner, of course,” explained Griscom. “Well, Mr. Griscom,” replied Paul elowly, “I was thinking of taking a partner-—1f I cou!d get her.” “Her?” repeated Griscom, pricking up his ears. “Yes, a young lady—a life partner. As a plain man asking a plain ques- tion, Mr. Griscom, can I have your permission to pay my addresses to Miss Edna?” “That would bring us together in business, too,” saild old Griscom thoughtfully. “I certainly consider you a remarkably bright young man, Mr. Burton.” “I wonder if Edna thinks so, too,” Paul questioned himself. He asked her that same evening. The result was a double partnership— one of business, and the other of love. (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.) RACE OF PYGMIES INTEREST In People Recently Discovered In Papua, Scientists See a Connec- tion With the Stone Age. In a race of pygmies recently dis- covered in Papua, sclentists see an- other connecting link between the average savage races of today and primitive man of the stone age. Ta- piro is the name given to this pygmy race. The men are extremely small but well molded, strong and active. In contrast to the Papuans, they have stocky, well-made calves instead of the thin, straight legs of their neigh- bors. Unlike most savages, they do mnot practice tattooing or cicatrization. Their needs for comfort are few. Each man may carry all his portable prop- erty in a sort of haversack, which is slung over his shoulder. This contains his sleeping mat, fire stick, rattan for kindling a flame, tobacco and other odds and ends. They are remarkably skilful in hew- ing rough but absolutely balanced canoes from the heavy trunks of trees. The craft are beautifully carv- ed and are propelled by paddles with long shafts ard wide blades. Skilful as they are in the making of canoes, their only implements are stone axes and bone knives, In disposing of their dead they wrap the body in mats and place it In a rude cofin usually constructed of broken canoes. The dbffin is raised on a sort of trestle and left until de- composition is complete. The skulls of the dead are kept by their rela- tives and friends and in a short time become worn smooth from handling. 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