The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-26

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dent of the Public Service Cor
poration of New Jersey, also made
addresses. Gov. Wilson spoke "On
the Moral Duty of Citizens to En-
ter Public Life" He strongly urg-
ed young men to study public
question at length and to take a
deep and active interest in poll
tics. In the course of his speech
he said: "No man who is or has
been a coward in State affairs, in
politics, a ever be depended
upon again. He will always be
treacherous.
Miss Estelle Fisher, joint heir
with her sister Edith to her
mothers estate of $4,000, and
heir in prospect to another for
tune accumulated by her father,
Emanuel Fisher, ran away last
week with Martin Dorman, her
fathers Russian carpenter, and is
now Mrs. Dorman. The marriage
was performed in Washington.
The couple returned to Baltimore
and went into hiding. Saturday
they go to live at the Marlborough
where Mrs. Dorman's father has
apartments. Calling up her father
on the telephone after her we'd
ding, Mrs. Dorman said: "Hello,
papa, this is Estelle. Do you for
give me?''"Yes, it's all forgiven.
Come home" was the fathers re-
ply.
The Rev. Maitland Alexander,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Pittsburg, who is
worth $40, 900, 900, and his wife
as much more, is experimenting
on monkeys in the hope of finding
q serum or cure for infantile pa
ralysis, the disease from which less
than Is per cent of its victims re-
cover. DR.. Alexander has for
many years been connected with
the Allegheny General Hospital,
and it is there that the expert
ments are now being carried on.
He now has sixty monkeys in a
cage in the pathological depart
ment and they are being utilized
daily for an exchange of blood
with sufferers fro mthe dread dis
ease.
Duplicating in smallest detail
the home of Robert Burns in Scot
land, the new club house of the
Burns Club of Atlanta, will be
formally dedicated next Wednes-
day, January 25. The club house
lis surrounded by a grove of nine
acres, which also has been made
to resemble the birthland of the
Scottish poet. The effect, is fur
Their heightended by a small brook
running through the place and
which probably will be christen-
ed the Bonnie Doom" The home
of the Atlanta Burns Club is said
co be the only home of its kind in
the world. The home will be stock
ed with Scottish literature and a
Scot will be employed as keeper.
Miss Alma Schmidt, of Terre
Haute, Ind, aged sixty, after for
ty-nine years residence in Ameri-
ca, has started for Germany by
way of New York, accompanied by
the bodies of all her relatives who
have died in this country. The
bodies were those of her father,
buried twenty-eight years; her
mother, buried twenty-four years;
her brother, buried twenty-five
years, and her sister, who died last
spring. Miss Schmidt will make
her home at Bismarck, Germany,
where. she says the $4,000 derived
from the sale of her property here
will keep her until she dies. The
high cost of living in this country
led her to return to her old home.
While soaring over San Antonio
in a dirigible balloon at a heigth
of 800 feet, Miss Marie Shelton
and w. Walter Stowe, both of San
Antonio, were married. The cere-
money was performed by the Rev.
j. III. Adams. The balloon was pi-
loted by Captain III. =. HONEYWELL
of st. Louis. The wedding was ac-
tually in the clouds as the day was
foggy and misty. The couple en-
joyed a honeymoon trip of thirty
five miles across the country be-
fore. the balloon was brought to
the earth.
Although a pin has passed en-
tirely through his kidneys. being
discharged in a rusted condition,
James Tompkins, son of DR.. J. G.
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