| Show As P NY TO HEAD BANK OF TURKEY ey BY the establishment key has taken of a national bank tur a ilive order which all europe Is stel watching SH towards with reform and sash the and bank england has with been ss the floated keenest interest of all for chiefly with capital and its president english appointed at the of his majesty 11 lb request S government in the tb wr sir TI II babington n person pen of smith who will resign h a present appointment of secretary to the po and proceed r to cons sa his new duties soon to take ua until now the ottoman government has been at the mercy of two P foreign banks the ottoman bank and the deutsche bank and whenever key go got t into tur pecuniary difficulties and to found ana her self without the wherewithal to ss arles to pay overdue sal government officials or the troops w were we ert of mutiny without their the terge verge oa money a not at all infrequent yence nce ae she hurried off of to one on or other of these concern concerns and huab occur an humbly cummy begged A loan to pacify her creditor creditors NOW how however turkey la Is regenerating regene ratin he be system of lence henceforth forth will have a regular budget so auch buell a state ste of government 6 affair affairs will 11 and n no be necessary and the national joner longer bankics bank as oon soon as it gets into working order ri will perform those financial fl transactions which the two foreign fores con comi nu formerly carried out these will be pt p an extensive character embrace tog lag lose of an industrial commercial and land mortgage bar bask k and it Is 1 ju intended tended also 1 to make it U a channel through which foreign capital shall be to the country tor for the development of its resources it will not be sir henrye henrys first experience of turkey before bis his appoint cent as a secretary ecret ary to the Post postoffice office he waa was british representative on the council of the ottoman public debt for three years and the experience pined ened during that time will doubtless prove of great value to him in his reent sent position besides that he gre has served in of many parts the world 0 la in the british civil service after an education at eton and cambridge university where he be took several mat honor honors he began his public life as its examiner in the education depart cent zent afterward becoming private secretary to mr afterward lord boschen brhen chancellor of the exchequer in 1894 he went to india as secretary to 0 ft then viceroy lord elgin for five years anata and to 1899 was sent to natal on a a financial mission 4 i t a he ile became a knight commander at 0 the he bath ht 1908 2508 and he be aleo also has the order first clas class Osman Oem ahten lh he lied Is 49 old and Is a tall broad shouldered youthful looking man bian with brown a mustache and brown e eye lei under a clever overhanging brow his ilia wife comee come alot of diplomatic stock also being the daughter of lord elgin he Hel married lier in 1898 while holding the post of secretary to her father in india WORLDS LD 8 B BIGGEST FARMER I 1 david Is the biggest farmer in the world lote of men have more land than I 1 says mr air rankin but they use it for rattle cattle ranges only mine Is a farm mr air rankin nel net ther raises cattle nor furnishes range he ile buys the raw steers from ther plains and fattens them of until un ul they are ard worth twice what he pays for the feeders as they are called he ile never selli sell any corn earn either because by feeding it to battlo according to a minute calculation of bis his own he gets more ample returns nearly 40 years ago mr air rankin then an illinois farmer discovered chak that land on one side aide of a state line was selling for 20 an acre while be he might buy any amount on the other side of the imaginary dividing mark for less than a third of that amount but real estate men told him that no railroad would e ever ver to near the Alis missouri lande but for all that he sold bis his farm and bought all lie Is could of the land at 6 an acre recently he took an inventory of hia 16 possessions in the neighborhood of karklo mo afo where he bought the cheap acreage and it showed that he owned acres fattening hogs cattle horses more than cottages in which the employed emp loyes of the big farm were housed great quantities of farm machinery and the like mr ir rankin comes of scotch irish ancestry lie ile was born barn in indiana in rural poverty and he be got his start in life trading a colt for calves calve a and raising the latter into steers today tay in addition to Ms mis farm he owns an implement factory a municipal water system a telephone company a bank and other oth er enterprises and aben ben the tho notion takes him be adds 50 or so to the endowment of college a presbyterian school in his home town which has ba known his generosity to the extent of HIGH RANK FOR DUKE when the duke of the abruzzi returns to italy from mountain climbing in india in the near future he wll will be promoted to the rank of ad miral in the italian navy and put in command of the naval arsenal in venice according to information from naval officials these same officials assume that the duke has given up hope of marrying miss katherine Kather lne elkins but in this assumption it seems most probable that the wish Is father to the thought the duke la Is as far as an ever from being on good terms with king victor emmanuel dowager queen margherita and others of his royal relatives who oppose bid hia marriage to the american girl nothing could prolong the dukes quarrel with bis his tin kin but his continued determination to wed the woman he loves geographers at all I 1 over the world are lauding the duke for his ascent u A the lofty himalayan wak ak vf aw or mount blount goodwin austen as the royal geographical society named the in honor of the first explorer of that region ka is in the highest mountain in the world save one it la Is 28 feet high only feet lower than mount everest evarest which aich rises to the blue higher than any other part of the earth the muke reached the height of 24 feet on mount goodwin austen and this Is in a record in mountain climbing eclipsing thao of dr graham who in reached the top of moua cabry in the himalayas Hina layas an all altitude of feet FIRST WOMAN CORONER in these days of suffragists and suffragettes women are filling tilling all sorts of offices but it re for a st joseph mo ito woman to become the original anal I 1 lady coroner the duties of the coroner of buchanan county ave for several weeks been performed by mrs airs fills fill that office when t p I 1 v byrd warme husband R ho he Is I 1 at 8 boroo just now dr byrd Is the B fw exposi on at seattle and Is enjoying his vacation bl f with the assurance that the emoluments thereto p accrues are hot not escaping the purse of the byrd 12 family since coroner byrd left home there have been unusual number of cages cases in st aseph joseph an and the co int aty y and in c of them there bj has Eb been a prompt I 1 response by mrs byrd who was legally commiss toned as his deputy batore dr summoned to investigate halt a been byrd byrd cju a departure birs officiated in two has accidents the same number of fa 1 l of murder harould 1 I haven ha found round the th duties of coroner espee especially tally disagreeable sald mrs B byrd I 1 look upon the work as my regular gular in the absence of my husband bines and I 1 try to dispatch it in a businesslike way I 1 am pleased to aT how that 1 I 1 have won the amat um of the other authorities and have bot ilot beer criticized by the public and in cases e medicine or surgery surge of med of course 0 I 1 am not I 1 deputize a physician where be performed it Is necessary that an autopsy out but there 0 o not a great many any such calto |
