Knight in 1908
Is Now Pauper
Pitiful Ending of Career of Sir
Luke White, Once Member
of Parliament.
BANKRUPT AND A WRECK
Some of His Poor Constituents Lost
Their All by Intrusting It to Him
—War Makes Financial
Distress Known.
London—From a position of afflu
ence, popularity and public service
which won him a seat in parliament
nod a kntjhlhood, Sir Luke White is
ending his days as the Inmate of a
workhouse infirmary in Driffield. <'lev
er enough to rise from poverty to a
noted career, Injudicious Investments
brought him low, and at the height of
hts political power he was forced to
confess himself bankrupt. He carried
down wiili him numerous trusting con
stituents, and his liabilities of
O»0 included $95,000 in loans from
poor people who had con tided their all
to him. The shame of having tints
wrecked the savings of those who be
lieved in him completely unnerved
him. Now he is dependent on public
charity, his spirit utterly crushed, and
ho is one of the most pitiful figures in
the north of England.
Began as Office Boy.
Born in Deighton. near York, in
ISi'i, ho v.M.s an office boy at fifteen
for a solicitor, who paid him about 1)0
cents a week. After eight years in
that service, of course with increasing
inernte, he became managing clerk for
another solicitor in Driffield, in an
other six years he was admitted to
the liar as solicitor, and in the same
year lie succeeded to the practice of
Isis employer, who hud died.
He speedily became known as a
local preacher and speaker for a large
district, and he was highly popular
and successful. For years he was
chairman of the loeal hoard, and then
of the urban district council. Then he
went to the Hast Hiding county coun
cil. In ISIKi he was appointed one of
the coroners for East Hiding. lie act
ed as election agent for Sir Angus
Holden, Liberal member of parlia
ment for the Buck rose division, and
when Sir Angus died in 1000 White
was chosen ns his successor. In 1D0S
he was knighted.
Popular For Years.
1 He t atlintied to divide Ids time be
tween ids attendance at Westminster
and his business in Yorkshire, hut as
lie gave more time to his parliament
ary duties than to his private affairs,
his practice suffered. The v.ar brought
out the fact that he was in linaneial
distress, and last fall he resigned his
seat and tiled a petition in bankruptcy.
It appeared in the bankruptcy pro
ceedings that some of his poor con
POPULAR IN WASHINGTON
Siriuiila ultra Ksehaurre of Chile,
who 1ms boon vary popular in society
circles of the capital «1 urinyr the past
winter and spring, is to marry Senor
Carlos Uribe, brother of Sonora de
Urota, wife of the minister from Co
lombia.
stitueuts hail confided their money to
him to put into war loans.
1' Heads provided for him for
awhile in n sanitarium near Scar
borough. When that fund was ex
hausted he was removed to the work
house infirmary, which almost adjoins
the court in which he formerly prac
Used. His tragic misfortune eaused «,
great sensation In East Yorkshire
where for years he had been so well
known and liked that In the town of
Bridlington particularly his photo
graph hung on the walls of every
other house. He had been eminently a
poor man’s lawyer.
His fate Is now brought afresh to
publie notice by an action against
Herbert Brown, a deputy coroner for
the East Biding of Yorkshire, who Is
charged, jointly with Sir LOke, with
having appropriated to the personal
use of Sir Luke In 1907 $1,000 intrust
ed to them by Without Hatfield for in
vestment. Sir Luke escapes arraign
ment owing to his physical and ner
vous collapse.
Thousands of Cats Are ;
Homeless by Prohibition
Now York.—Another <>f tlio
evils of prohibition has boon dis
covered.
Seven thousand oats have
boon tnado homeless in New
York by tlio closing up of the
snloons, it is estimated. There
were well over 7,000 saloons in
New York and, outside the fash
ionable bars in the big hotels,
it is estimated that every bar
room had its eat, some of them
more than one.
Now that the saloons are
closed the eats are homeless.
Adopt Married Man.
Harrisburg, l'a.—Although ho Is
twenty-tour years old and married,
Lewis Simmers Walker lias secured
foster parents, for the Dauphin county
court lias approved the application of
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham 1\ Simmers to
adopt him as their son. Walker has
made his home with the aged couple
for some years, and they made him
their sop to escape legal technicalities
when they will give him part of their
estate.
Keep 300 Job
Bureaus Open
Welfare Societies Respond to
Appeal of Federal Employ
ment Service.
FIND WORK m SOLDIERS
Two Hundred and Sixty-four Offices
Already Assured, With Replies
From Five States Still
to Bo Received.
Washington. So areat lias been the
response of the country to the appeal
of the I'nited Stales employment-serv
ice jo assist in the maintenance of its
soldiers' and civilian workers’ place
ment organization in the field that
with returns from five large states not
jet received, and those from none of
the other states complete, the continu
ance of 204 employment offices already
is assured. Because of its limited ap
propriation the federal employment
service is Itself able to finance but
sixty offices, and the outside support
for the other 200 offices will be con
tinued until congress acts upon the I
Nolan-Keuyon hills for a permanent !
national employment service.
Welfare organizations and chambers
of commerce lead among the various i
agencies that are keeping federal em
ployment offices open, supplying quar- j
tors, personnel and funds. The agon- j
cies which have been co-operating j
with the employment service since de- |
mobilization began also ;»re continuing j
their’support of the 2,(WO emergency!
bureaus for returning soldiers and
sailors.
Keep 300 Open.
John B. Densmore, director general !
of 'he I'nited States employment serv
ice, predicted that when the returns j
front the slates are complete it will be j
fount! that considerably more than j
three hundred federal attires will he j
open through voluntary contributions,
f 'rom the end of March to June 111), he
said, more than four hundred offices
were kept In operation by outside
funds in expectation that after the
latter date the employment service
would he aide to resume their financ
ing, tint because of the reduced ap
propriation for tlie new fiscal year, he J
explained, cent limed support is being j
asked for the next five months, within ,
which period, it is understood eon-|
gross will have acted on the measure j
for a permanent service*.
“The response of the country indl- !
cates ti general desire of all to give
practical assistance to the soldier and j
civilian war worker seeking to re
t'stiib sti himself. Mr. Donsmore said:
“It also shows that American com- t
munitles, having learned the value of
having a central public employment
office during the last eighteen months,
want those offices continued.”
WOUNDED SOLDIERS LEARN FARMING
ass*
yj < *>V" :3»\v.v**>s
\\>Ht» rn Nfw*pap«r I nlonJ
Wounded soldiers, convalescing nt hs'.se hospital No. 1. Gun Hill Hoad.
N. Y.. arc Iming given Instruction in fanning and agriculture. Not only does
this help the men regain their strength and health, hut provides them with u
trade which they may follow sifter demobilization.
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Six Scribbled Words
Dispose of Big Estate
New York.-r-A will of six
words, scribbled hastily on the
margin of n daily market report
four minutes before the testator
died, was filed In surrogate's
court. The writer was Alexan
der William Waters, general
ajjent of llie American fruit ex
change. With the words. “All I
have belongs to /alma." he left
his $'.200,000 estate to Zulma
I'owell. ids housekeeper. Mr.
Waters 1 ad just reached Ids of
flee on July ■'! when ho was
seized by heart failure.
Must Tell Their Exact Age.
I .oh Angeles, Cal.—Judge F. li. Taft
of the superior court lias ruled that
hereafter when women nre asked their
ages in his court they must not say,
‘Tiu over twenty-one,” but will he re
quired to give the exact years.
Tell the Age of Oceans
Washington.- How old is tho ocean?
Standing on i!i<’ shore and looking out
over the expanse of water, the ocean
seems a fixed and eternal fact, but
the seas had a beginning and will have
an end. Scientists stay that when this
time comes the last drop of water will
have been absorbed into the earth's
crust, its surface will he a desert and
all life will become extinct.
The age of the oceans have been
estimated by a lending authority. Pro
fessor Frank Clarke of tho ITnlted
States ecological survey, at about t)0,
years. This, of course. Is only
an approximation, but is based on
carefully studied scientific data.
All the water was once contained
in tho vapor Hint surrounded the glow
ing. slowly cooling mass which Is now
the earth. After the gases combined
to form water the process of making
the ocean salt began. This was tin*
work of the rivers. Mineral salts were
extracted from the rocks over which
they flow nnd deposited In the
Kuril year flip iictliin of thp streams
is sail' ut make the ocean slightly more
salty, ami this is the basis on which
its age is calculated. The amount of
salt carried by the rivers of the world
is computed by the scientists and com
pared with the total quantity In the
ocean. After evaporation and the ve
locity of currents have been eonsld
eted. it is possible to calculate how
long It has taken to make the sea
water as salty as It Is today.
About three and a half per cent of
mineral salts and OflVa per cent fresh
water make up the oceans. Three
fourths of the solid matter is common
salt, other ingredients being chloride,
j sulphate and bromide of magnesium;
! sulphate and carbonate of lime nnd
sulphate of potash, besides traces of
various other minerals nnd metals, In
cluding gold ami silver.
Liberty's song la mostly chorus.
ANNAPOLIS MIDDIES INSPECT PANAMA CANAL
,
.Midshipmen l'rorn Annapolis naval academy inspecting the locks of the Panama canal. One thousand two iiuu
dri d of them were carried there from Cuba on six battleships.
IDLE WORKMEN PARADING IN BUDAPEST
One of the huge parades of idle workmen that mark the rule of the eommu tiists in Iludapesi, the capital of Hun
gary.
WALKED ACROSS CONTINENT
Mrs. J. M. Krnnklyn, twenty-eight
years old. a graduate of the Bellevue
1 lospitul Training School for Nurses,
who won u prize of $ LI,000 hy walking
across the continent from Seattle,
Wash., to New York. She was not per
mitted to accept a ride unless asked
twice. The trip cost her only $2S.
Change '"n Japan’s Trade.
Japan’s exports for the first three
months of 1010 were valued at $ItST,
".72,000 and her Imports at $239t9G0.
i00. showing an adverse lialarscfe of
>.-,2.227.000. The adverse trend that
has been maintained since tire login
ning of this year is taken as un indi
cation that Japan’s business is losing
the war Impetus and is going to run in
Us normal groove, states Japan Adver
tiser.
The War Idea.
f armer Smith was painting his barn
laUleship gray, and every so far he
V(,.,jid mark off a fake window and
n:oar black stripes down It.
“Are you crazy. Jim?" asked a neigh
"what you doing that for?"
“C’ammyflnge.’’ was the prompt an
w,r. "at a distance- of fifty foot,
-maps will think It’s th' county Jail.
iieve me. I’m lamin' something new
com th war every day,"
BRITISH AIRSHIP PREPARING TO FLY TO INDIA
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Tin- U-33, sister ship to the H-.'hi wliieh recently riunie the (light to tin*
United States and hark to England, is reported to lie making preparations for
ti flight to India. The photograph shows drums being hoisted aboard the Itt33
prior to the airship's hi hour trip over the Itritish i,h insert is ti portrait
of Capt. M. G. Thomas, her commander.
FOOD FOR TURKS ARRIVING ON CAMELS
I ndet the direct km of a French officer ttiis camel transport, carrying load
after lead of wheat and grain, is being brought Into Constantinople, where
the food riots arc reported to have taken on a serious aspect.
BRIEFS
In Japan individuals own only tlie
surface of tiio ground and its products,
all mineral deposits being government
property.
One of the largest and most comber,
sf mo forms of money is found In ccn
ttrl Africa, whore the natives use n
cruciform Ingot of copper ore more
than 10 Inches long.
A recently Invented textile for un
dergarments stretches lengthwise, hut
not across the weave of the material.
A clergy matt Is the inventor of n
light Itar to be held against the upper
lips by clamps fastened in the nostril*
to prevent snoring.
A Frenchman claims to have invent
ed an electric curling device fur won*,
en's hair so effective the hulr rcuUm
Us shape far months.