The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-03-21

| tnat organization IN 1nl1dueIpllld
which is said to be the finest in the
country, and contributed literally te
its maintenance. In 1868 he entered
on a mission work in what was known
| in those DAYS as the "rough part" o
the Quaker City. He founded the
Bethany College as we'll as the pre-.
paratory and training schools con.
nected with it. Mr.. Wanamaker wa:
one of the originators of the Christian
Commission. He was chairman o.
the General Committee tor the Relief
of the Irish People in the last famine
leading member OF the committee
for the relief of the sufferers by the
Ohio foods, of typhoid stricken Plym-
outh in Pennsylvania. Of Charleston
and its earthquake shocks and the yell
low fever sufferers Of the South, espe-
cially in Memphis. He has frequently
been solicited to stand as candidate
for Congress at Large and also for
Mayor Of the city OF Philadelphia. In
1876 he established the vast mercan-
tile business of which he is now the
head business which is by far the
most complete and perfect organiza-
ton of its kind in the world. The
annual "turn over" ofits wholesale and
retail departments is about $4,000,
900. In addition to building hotel
for his army of employees, where their
comfort and the tightening of their
living expense are their chief care, he
has introduced system of profit shar-
ing in the business by which he dis
tributed among them last year more
than 100000 over and above their
usual salaries.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MILLER.
For Attorney General, the Presi-
dent has named his law partner, W.
H. H. Miller, a New Yorker by birth,
but long a citizen of Indiana. He
was born at Augusta, N. Y, in 1841.
A graduate OF Hamilton College, he
studied law at Toledo, Ohio, in the
office of Chief Justice Waite. After
admission to the Bar he settled al
Fort Wayne, Ind, where he built up a
large practice. In 1874, when he
had mounted to the head Of his pro.
fession in that city, he received ar
offer of partnership with General Har-
rison at indianapolis. The offer wa:
at once accepted. For fifteen year:
the Harrison and Miller families have
been on terms Of close intimacy, and
General Harrison and Mr.. Miller are
said to have been almost inseparable
socially. After the Chicago nomina
ton Mr.. Miller was the confdant anc
| adviser of General Harrison, and tina
relation has been maintained through.
out all the post election vicissitudes
In his selection for this Office the Pres
ident has accordingly provided him
self with at least one adviser on whose
sincerity of purpose and unsel6shnes:
of motive he feels that he can place
absolute reliance.
NJ Lain NCSh
The newly formed Department. .
Agriculture is given in charge to *
Governor Rusk. Of Wisconsin, IL
was born III Morgan county. Hj2:r. j.
1899. The death Il lis father.
farmer, early left him to support tl,s
family, and lie supplemented the rev.
enues Of the farm by engaging as {
stage driver. His route led along the
canal on whose towpath young Gar
field urged the patient mule, and there
young Rusk formed friendship with
the future President which only death
terminated. In 1855 Rusk emigrated
to Wisconsin. He prospered as a
farmer and was elected Sheriff of Yer
non county. AT the outbreak Of the
war he was volunteer, and entered
the field as Major of the Twenty-hfth
regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. He
served through the war, was frequently
rewarded for gallantrv, and came out
at the close Of the war with prevent
rank of Brigadier General. The next
year he was elected Bank Comptroller
of Wisconsin,, retaining the office for
four years. Then he entered Con-
gress and served six years, distinguish
ing himself in pension legislation. In
1881 President Garfield offered to
send him to Paraguay and Uruguay
as Charge d. Affaires and offered him
the post of Public Printer. He de-
clined these Offices and that fall the
Wisconsin Republicans made him
Governor of that State. In that Of
flee he gave such general satisfaction
that he was twice reelected, and he
might now be serving his fourth term
had he not declined to run. He pre-
vented railroad riot by sending food
to the starving laborers instead of
troops, and this and similar acts in
spired for him the love of the working
classes and the confidence of capital.
He went out Of office the most popular
Governor Wisconsin ever had.