Show J m3 v L'± Washington Will Miss the Fairbanks to othei — In the social life of capital and Mrs Fairbanks will be greatly missed when they leave Washington which is expected to be soon now that Mr Fairbanks’ term has expired The Fairbanks home has been a center for the dancers and diners ever since the tall Indianian entered official life here There is a popular notion that Fairbanks is cold and distant Washingtonians often wonder how this jeport got such widespread circulation Every day hundreds of visitors most of them sightseers drop In for a few minutes to see the office back of the senof the ate chamber The door is always open and Mr Fairbanks is seldom too As a host busy to greet his callers WASHINGTON f no he has a reputation second man in public life Mr Fairbanks’ plans for the future have not been announced It is known among his Intimate friends that he long has been collecting material for a history of the life and times of WilDoubtless the prepliam McKinley aration of this work will consume much of his time in private life Next to Mark Hanna Fairbanks was the counselor of fhe McKinley administration He w’as temporary chairman of the first convention which nominated McKinley in 1896 and to him therefore" fell the duty of making the “keynote” speech McKinley advanced Senator Fairbanks in every possible way and among other honors made him the American chairman of the joint high commission appointed In 1898 to consider commercial reciprocity and other important questions with the government of the Dominion of But for the opposition of Canada stand pat interestsin this country this commission might have made an record KCHAKP AACKM 4 iSAvej ivMav gAiiNG&8 VAt&'X - J£C&B'rAKy A Storers to Return to Capital Society MRS BELLAMY STORER planning to return to Washington society They are having their beautiful home on Rhode Island avenue jrenovatedr where they will be ready to receive their friends soon It Is added that they will be persona grata with the new president despite Storer incident the Since Mr Bellamy Storer’s recall from Austria where he was ambassador before the quarrel with President Roosevelt have been living in retirement in Cincinnati because of their many friends here Mr Roosevelt met Mr and Mrs Belcomlamy Storer when civil service missioner here and while Mr Storer was a member of congress from Cinas commiscinnati Mr Roosevelt sioner and as assistant secretary of the navy was frequently entertained at the Storer mansion and was be-- ' friended by them in many ways Mr Storer was later appointed am- - Mr AND CMAJBJLeJ c ta VA3JL-EcoMM&ice— Q ft bassador to Austria by President Mc" ano UASOf Kinley' the post being especially agreeable because Mrs Bellamy Storer was gan the practice of law in New York a devout Catholic and Austria was recforced him to abancity but don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago ognized as the greatest Catholic court in the world and engaged in the wholesale grocery In this and other commerbusiness During Mr Roosevelt’s administration there developed a movement to pursuits he has amassed a large FAMILY cial fortune Before entering the cabinet have Archbishop Ireland raised to the he disposed of his holdings in the big Mrs rank of cardinal Bellamy Storer was interested in the success grocery firm and resigned as director of the Commercial National bank of of the plan and there was much cor- SKETCHES NINE THE OF Mr MacVeagh has always Chicago respondence between her and PresiEMINENT MEN FORM been Interested in movements for the dent Roosevelt which brought the republic welfare locally and nationally port that the president was interested CABINET HIS ING He has been president of the Chicago himself in having Archbishop Ireland Citizens’ association the Chicago promoted Bellamy Storer was then recalled as P C KNOX HEADS THE GROUP Bureau of Charities and the Municipal Art League of the ambassador by President Roosevelt American Civic association and chairand it became known that there had man of the immigration department of klin been a wide breach between them Pennsylvanian Is Secretary of the National Civic Federation Mr The president made all the correspondMacVeagh Chicago MerMacVeagh formerly was a Democrat ence with Mrs Storer public from the chant Holds the Treasury Portfo- - and in 1894 he was nominated for White House and the Storers returned M — llo Jacob Dickinson Tennessee United States senator by the Demoto the United States and went to CinDemocrat to Manage the Army — crats of Illinois but was defeated in cinnati to live He supported Grover Mrs Bellamy Storer was Maria t the legislature Affairs of the Agricultural Cleveland but afterward changed his She is Longworth before marriage Left in James Wilson's party allegiance because of the attiNicholas an aunt of Representative Hands tude of the Democratic party on the Longworth the money question here in soShe is Philander Chase Knox of Pennsyl- Dickinson Is War Secretary with friendly particularly being ciety vania secretary of state in the cabJacob M Dickinson of Tennessee the Tafts the Longworths and the inet of President Taft was born at and the new secretary of Deweys He was war Chicago Brownsville Pa in 1853 was born in 1851 at Columbus graduated from Mount Union college Miss He graduated from the UniOhio in 1872 and three years later versity of Nashville in 1872 and afterwas admitted to the bar During the ward studied law at Columbia college or will wait four years upon the years 1876 and 1877 he served as asat the University of Leipsiz and in chance of becoming a white house sistant United States district attorney Paris He served several times by bride lor the western district of Pennsylspecial commission on the While no announcement has been vania In the latter year he formed bench of Tennessee and wassupreme assistmade of the engagement It is undera law partnership with James H Reed ant attorney general of the United stood that there is a cordial underwhich still exists and which has rep- States in intwo the young peo- resented many large corporations standing between Wilson Retains His Place ple and that Miss Roosevelt’s age is cluding the Carnegie Company Mr Only one member of the Roosevelt to an early Knox entered President the only intereference McKinley’s cabinet retains his portfolio under as in cabinet attorney general April Mr Taft marriage That is James Wilson of Mr Phillips the lucky man is per- 1901 serving until 1904 when he was Iowa secretary of agriculture So exsona grata with the family of his in- elected United States senator from cellent had been his work in that posiThe latter he tended bride He is one of the youngPensylvania position tion that there was no serious talk of est men who ever held a position of resigned to become the head of Presimaking a change Born in Scotland in He belongs to dent Taft’s cabinet such responsibility 1835 Mr Wilson came to the United one of the oldest families' cf MassaStates in 1852 and three years later MacVeagh for the Treasury chusetts a family which has figured Franklin MacVeagh secretary of the settled in Iowa In 1861 he engaged In in the history of the state and country treasury was born on a farm in farming in Tama county He was a since the earliest times He was ap Chester county Pennsylvania gradumember of the Iowa assembly for pointed third assistant secretary ol ated from Yale in 1862 and from three sessions and speaker of the state Dec 8 1906 Columbia Law school in 1864 He be house for one session and also was a PRESIDENT TAFTS OFFICIAL r— — Dame Rumor Says Ethel Is Betrothed ROOSEVELT MISS ETHEL of Roosevelt who but recently made her debut is about to become engaged to William Phillips the young third assistant secretary of state according to report So definite is the information from Miss Roosevelt’s friends concerning the stat£ of her affections that guesses are now being made as to whether the popular daughter will follow the dictates of her heart-soo- n Love Brings Husband to Wife’s Faith ' as in at in Washington SOCIETY other cities of the United States has been peculiarly Interested Evelyn in the announcement that Walsh McLean daughter of Thomas Walsh the Colorado mining king has brought her husband Edward B McLean son of Publisher John R McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer to the Ro-- ' The date of the man Catholic faith ceremony which is to bring the young Scotch husband into the church ofhis wife has not yet been announced Evelyn Walsh had been in the public eye to an unusual degree before her marriage last August to young Each of the young people McLean has a few millions on hand right now Good Company Hint for the Talkative Religion cannot illuminate philoThere is much to be said for silence without waiting for the death of their sophical discussions Philosophical If the majority of people could be which will boost can discussions confirm parents respective religious made to exercise themselves regularly And therefore seek the com- in restraint of the tongue the general the family bank account up to pretty truths pany of truly religious people and of business of this planet would be connearly 8100000000 real" the as well siderably expedited— Pall Mall Gaphilosophers living The engagement had as the dead — Tolstoy zette been announced the respective papas had given their consent the date had A Matrimonial Oversight As We Sow We Reap been announced and the bride’s father It never seems to occur to persons Man is the artificer of his own haphad announced his Intention to expend who are getting married that they Let him beware how he compiness of in the laudable purpose $50000 ought to take each other for good as plains of the disposition of circummaking his daughter’s nuptials the well as for better or worse — Philadelstances for it is his own disposition most torri(T and lavish stunt In the rec- phia Record he blames— Henry D Thoreau ords of western society At the last moment how'ever the young pair Child’s Pathetic Suicide To One Kind of Woman smashed the arrangements and inciAt Boliver Pa recently Mary Here’s to the woman who has a dentally saved the Walsh cash by takeight years old committed sui- smile for every joy a tear for every ing matters into their own hands elop- cide She grieved over the death of sorrow a consolation for every grief ing with only a chauffeur and a group her mother “Papa I am going to an excuse for every fault a prayer for of valets and maids in the party and shoot’’ she said and before he had every misfortune and encouragement getting married as quietly as possible time to realize the meaning of the for every hope— t Then “Tom” Walsh and the readers of words the girl fired a bullet into her the newspapers were taken into the temple Peanut Oil Well Liked secret the bride’s costume was deIn Europe a peanut oil is scribed at length to a regiment of inTo Kill an Evil Odor the most highly esteemed of vegetable the parental terested correspondents Dried orange peel allowed to smol- oils after olive oil It is also used t forgiveness arrived promptly and the der on a piece of iron or on an in the manufacture of butter substimatrimonial expense money was given old shovel will kill any bad odor in a tutes The oils are used room and leave a fragrant one behind to charity for soap !" member of the Iowa state railway commission In 1873 he was elected to congress serving two terms and was sent to the national legislature again for one term' in 1881 He was ui iversiiy of regent of the State Iowa in £90 was and in made director of the agricultural experiment station and professor of at the Iowa Agricultural colAmes la In 1897 he became lege secretary of agriculture Postmaster General Hitchcock The first cabinet officer selected by Mr Taft after his election was Frank II Hitchcock of Massachusetts who gave up his place as firtt assistant postmaster general to manage successfully the Taft presidential campaign He has been given the office of postmaster general in the new cabinet Mr Hitchcock was born at Amherst O in 1867 and graduated from Harvard in 1891 and from Columbia Law school In 1S94 Since 1891 he has official been a government Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio Missouri has been rewarded for its switch to the Republican column by the appointment of Charles Nagel as secretary of commerce and labor Mr Nagel is a leading lawyer of St Louis and the west He was born in Texas in 1849 moved to St Louis when a child and graduated from the St Louis Law school in 1873 He has been senior member of the law firm of Nagel & Kirby professor In the St Louis Law school and a trustee In of Washington university he was a member of the Missouri house of representatives and in 1893 97 was president of the St Louis city council He Is a member of the Republican national committee and for years has been an intimate friend of Mr Taft He was one of Mr Roosevelt’s As an most enthusiastic supporters attorney Mr Nagel was identified with several important cases dealing with the numerous complications in the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the then Indian territory Navy Under Meyer’s Charge President Taft’s secretary of the navy George Von L Meyer of Massar chusetts has had wide experience as a business man legislator diplomat and cabinet officer He was born in Boston in 1858 and graduated from He then entered Harvard in 1879 business and has been prominently conecled with a number of financial His career and mercantile concerns as a public official began in 1889 when he was elected to the Boston common council He then served on the board of aldermen and in he was a member of the Massachusetts isgislar ture the last two years being speaker of the house In 1900 Mr Meyer was sent to Italy as American ambassador and in 1905 was transferred to Rus1907 sia In January President Roosevelt called him home to enter his cabinet as postmaster general This portfolio he has relinquished for that of the navy Ballinger Secretary of Interior After about one year’s service as commissioner of the general land office Richard A Ballinger of Seattle Wash has entered the cabinet as He is a secretary of the interior native of Iowa having been born ia Boonesboro in 1858 After attending the University of Kansas and Washburn college at Topeka he went to ’Willtalns college graduating in 1884 and afterward studying law and reHe was moving to Washington United States court commissioner in and later was judge of tha court in Jefferson county supreme Wash Attorney General Wickersham W who Wickersham beGeorge comes President Taft’s attorney general has had the reputation of being one of the ablest lawyers in New York city Born in Pittsburg in 1858 he studied civil engineering in Lehigh university and in 1880 graduated from the law school of the University ol For two years he pracPennsylvania ticed law in Philadelphia In 1884 be became associated with the law firm of Strong & Cadwalladare to which Henry W Taft brother of the president belongs How the Snow Comes Down In a western home Lynne four years old was kneeling on the carpet before a low window Intently watching the falling snow as it was the prairie: He rapidly covering turned and said reverently: “Aunt Lizzie God sends it down and he spreads it so smooth” — Delineator Daily Thought To refuse to yield to others when reason or a special cause require 11 is a mark of pride and stiffness— Thomas a Kempis Blackbird with Two Heads At Linwood near Paisley Scotland blackbird which is the unique professor of two almost distinctly formed heads has been seen It has two bills and has been seen to pick and make use of both but whether it can pass food through both cannot yet be definitely stated a World’s Largest Incubator The largest Incubator in the world at Batary near Sydney Australia It accommodates 11400 ducks’ eggs or 14080 hens’ eggs is |