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" " y ff x . ir i Cr swu s HI 7 r BALTIMORE. All American girls lacking millions but possessing beauty and the grand manner, take heart! Dukes and lords and counts who woa and wed our belles are nearly always as poor as their brides are rich. Titles and exalted social positions are bar tered for the gold that brings luxury, If not happiness. But the Due de Richelieu, half-American and heir to a great fortune, is unique. Love alone caused him to make Elinor Douglas Wise his bride. The Baltimore girl who is now on her honeymoon with Richelieu is wealthy only in her loveliness, in her wit, in her sprightliness. It was the lure of her personality, the cadence of her voice that caused the most elusive catch in all the French nobility to fall in love with her at sight. When the sparkling bride fairly floated out of the century-old cathe dral in Baltimore, after Cardinal Gib bons had performed the ceremony, the newest American duchess bowed and smiled happily to a brilliant assem blage1 that included girls of great for tune, destined, perhaps,' to gain titles xor tnemseives. uui ior none, or mem will Cupid weave a truer romance. Many a gold-baited trap was set for the Due de Richelieu by socially ambi tious mothers. But he avoided them all, and was fancy free till, on a fate ful night early last year in Paris, when he attended a dinner given by Mrs. Seth Barton French of New York, and Newport. Miss Wise was a guest also. Later in the drawing room, lighted Dy the mellow radiance or wax canaies, the Baltimore girl sang French chan- j sons with such warmth of voice and with such style and force that her ..hearers were stirred to enthusiasm. ( Love at First Sight. But the duke! He was entranced. From that moment he was the singer's devoted cavalier. He did not leave her side for the rest of the evening. It was not long before he proposed to tell her fortune. He swore that he would be able to draw aside the veil of the future and truly solve one great mystery for her. At a table in a secluded corner he looked longingly into the dancing eyes : of the American girl as she laid the, palm of her left hand before him. "Everything that is lovely in wom an!" cried the duke, pointing to ,a line. "A love affair," he smiled and paused. "A probable marriage.; suc cess in love." Then he 'seemed to be. lost in, thought as he studied the pretty palm. "I see a change coming into your life, a wonderful change," he said. "Before long you will contract a mar riage that the world will call brilliant. And it will be for love!" . ' ; So began the romance of Miss Wise and Marie Odet Jean Armand de Cba pelle de Jumilhac, Due de Richelieu and De Fronsac. . The duke and the:. hew American duchess are not going 'to spend all their time in foreign social life. The mansions of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most reserved and aristocratic in all the world, are open to the Due de Richelieu and his' bride, and not many American girls, even those who have gained great French names by mar riage, have the entree to that conserv ative society. Will Live In New York. Therefore, It is considered remarka ble that the duke and his bride have agreed to live In New York during much of the year, and In consequence they have leased luxurious apartments In the Carlton Chambers, just north of the Ritz-Carlton, on Madison ave nue. These are being furnished most artistically and the rooms will be notable for their fidelity to various French periods. It will be a novelty for a duke and duchess to entertain the Four Hun dred In their own home in New York! When Richelieu married Miss Wise it was the second time that a Balti more beauty had been won by a mem ber of the French nobility. On the e ther occasion it was in the early part" of the nineteenth century Jerome Bonaparte, the dashing broth er of the great Napoleon, married the lovely Betsy Patterson, a reigning belle of her day . and often called "glorious Betsy." . This union had a lamentable ending, for the capricious Jerome deserted his American wife at the command of the emperor, who de sired to make Jerome a pawn in his tremendous international chess game. Bride a General Favorite. Miss Wise is popular in her home city a3 well as in Washington, New port and Paris. Her friends declare she bears a charmed life. She has been in peril several times. On one occasion she narrowly escaped death when a carriage, in which she and Lycurgus Winchester were riding, was run down by an electric car. The ac cident happened at the Mount Royal entrance to Druid Hill park in Balti more on Aug. 2, 1906. The future duchess suffered a broken left leg and a bad cut under the left eye, and for a time it was feared the cut would mar her beauty. Her companion, who was called the handsomest man In all Maryland, was instantly killed. He was the husband of Katherine Gris wold Pratt Winchester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dalla3 Bache Pratt of New York. Miss Wise was a good friend of the Winchesters. After a long stay in a hospital Miss Wise went abroad. Her musical tal ents attracted the attention of Emma Eames, who urged, the girl to study for grand opera. Sure that her pro tegee would achieve success, the .prima donna herself began, to give the fortu nate Baltimore girl three lessons a week. That Miss Wise made the most of her opportunity was shown by her rapid advance. In the end her voice did gain laurels for her, though not of the kind that Mme. Eames nor the girl had dreamed of. Truly a Love Match. The new duchess is not tall, has light brown hair and dark blue eyes, with dark lashes and a pale complex ion. She is remarkable for her vi vacity and ability to talk with sure knowledge on almost any .subject. The duke is thirty-seven .years old. He always told his friends that he would marry only for love, and that he would wait until he was sure he had found the right girl. : But certainly the Due de Richelieu did not need to contract an alliance Jot money! On the death of his mother he will inherit half of her great fortune, and he receives an al lowance from her that is princely. His mother, bom in New Orleans as the daughter of Michael Heine, a lead ing banker .there, enjoys the distinc tion of bejng the only American wom an who ever attained sovereign rank in the Old World, and has figured in the courts of Europe, not among the mere nobility, but among the crowned heads." She gained possession of her place on a throne through her mar riage to her second husband, the reigning prince of France, from whom' she is legally separated. The present duke Is the third of the present creation. Through, his mother he is related to the Millenberger, the Harkina. the Pollock and the Marigny families of New Orleans. ' He has been twice reported as engaged, first to Miss Irwin, sister of the" countess of Limerick, and on-another occasion to Mile. Pauline de St. Sauveur. Brilliant Line of Ancestry. The dukedom of Richelieu, at the death of the great cardinal, was be queathed, with the king's permission, to his grandnephew; that Is to say, to the grsftdson of one of the car dinal's sisters, and finally came to be the possession of the American wom an's son. There are other French dukes with American blood in their veins. One is the four-year-old Due de Chau nes et de Picquigny, tenth of his line whose mother was Miss Theodora P. Shonts. The Due Decazes will In due course be succeeded In his honors by his son Louis, born of his marriage to the late Isabel Singer, and also will come in for much of the wealth which his American mother derived from her father's sewing machine Invention. Then there la the Due de Praslin, whose Boston wife was formerly Mrs. Charles Hamilton Paine. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Forbes of New York. The present Due de Richelieu is sim ple and unaffected in his ways, and is much praised for his common sense. Por several years he has been idolized at Newport, where a duke is dearly loved. The new Duchess is also of dis tinguished ancestry. Her father, the late Capt. Frederic May Wise, won distinction in the United States navy, and the Wises were favorites in so cial circles of the navy set. Capt. Wise belonged to the famous Virginia family of that name. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Frederic May, was a noted resident of Washington be fore the capltol was built On her mother's side the duchess is decend ed from a mingled strain of French and old Puritan blood of the famous Massachusetts family to which John Qulncy Adams belonged. Plan Prolonged Honeymoon. The honeymoon is to be notable. After an audience with the pope they are to go to the Riviera to visit at Monte Carlo with the Princess of Mon aco. Later they will go to England to be the guests of the former Em press Eugenie at Farnborough, then to visit the splendid Paris house that the duke owns, and finally to the three different chateaux that Riche lieu maintains, especially the one in Touraine, which is very beautiful and from wrdch part of France the duke's family originally came. The duke is proud of his American duchess, and he is, not chary in ex pressing himself on international mar riages. "They are to my way of thinking," he said, "in no way different from rational marriages. Everything de pends on the characters of the two, and the circumstances. I have known American girls for a good many years, and I believe in them, and in the great future American women will have. I j have never, though, given the matter j of nationality a serious thought. Love, to my mind, has very little to do with j boundaries. Any marriage based up- j on any other grounds than mutual j love and respect cannot survive the strain of years." vi One Woman's Guess. A Pittsburgh man recently returned from New York tells this little story of an incident during the great police and public service parade In the me tropolis a few weeks ago. He says he was standing at a window in one of the large Fifth avenue hotels which commanded a fine view of the pageant, while about him were a collection of people gathered from all corners of the country. Among them was a New York woman to whom all looked for Information. She was able to'eatisfy inquiries until the division of the de partment of water supplies came along. Equipment of varlouB sorts all bore in great white letters the insig nlt, "D. W. S" and the fountain head of information was immediately asked for what they stood. She racked her brains for a moment and then haz arded : "I really don't quite know, unless it means - the department of white slaves." Trying Hard. . An artist who has a lofty studio on West Twenty-third street lately spent two months among the darker dwell ings of London, sketching the laborer in the mass, children with dull eyes, houses with broken window panes. One morning he was In a petty ses sions court In the East End, and a battered man was before the magis trate, charged with drunkenness and breach of the peace. "When you were here thirty days ago," said the magistrate, "didn't you promise to sign the pledge?" "I'm a-goln' to, y'r 'onor," aald the culprit, "as soon as I can learn to write. I'm takin' lessons, but I ain't makin much progress.!' New York Times. GEOLOGICAL BOARD REPORTS PROGRESS REPORT SHOWS INCREASED RE SULTS ALONG ALL LINES OF THIS WORK. THE ROADS AND DRAINAGE All of the Counties of the State in Har mony With the Survey. Vote Bonds and Ask For Engineering Assistance. Raleigh. The state geological board, in semi-annual session here, Governor Craig presiding, heard a re port from State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt that showed remarkable prog ress in the work of the board. In for est survey work of ascertaining the timber resources of the state the re port shows all counties west of Ala mance inventoried and three men at work in Alamance. In road work the report shows that for the six months past the repre sentatives of the board have taken a hand in road-bond elections carried that represent $2G,000,000 of road bonds in various counties. Surveys have been made for the Madison and Henderson sections of the Central Highway and the Hickory Nut Gap section of the Chaiiotte-Asheville highway. The citizens of the later section of road have raised $3,500 by private subscriptions and $1,500 by bonds for the seven miles of - road that the state is to provide convicts for. The money is also ready for meeting the conditions for convict road work for the Central Highway in Madison just as soon as the con victs can be supplied by, the state. There is 15 miles of thi3 road. In the . matter of engineering as sistance for road work by counties the report show3 assistance given in Alamance, Anson, Burke, Caswell, Chatham, Craven, Henderson, Har nett, Jackson, McDowell, Orange, Polk, Rockingham, Rutherford, Per quimans, Warren, Wilson, Washing ton, Wilkes and Madison. The department ha3 collected sta tistics of road building, in North Caro lina for 1912 that show very great increase in road construction ' during that year over any previous year. The data will be published very soon now. In drainage the report shows 65 districts in the state, a gain of seven for the past six months. There are upwards of 1,000,000 acres of land to be reclaimed or greatly Improved. Examinations For Deputies. Confronted with the situation of having no list of eligible Democrats from which to choose deputies'' for Colonel Watts, the newly appointed collector and for the collector to be appointed shortly in the eastern dis triot and for the customs collector, it has been decided to have the civil ser vice hold examinations for these of fices at Charlotte, Asheville, Durham, Greensboro, Newbern, Statesville, Wil mington, Winston-Salem, Raleigh and Elizabeth City, August 15. Southern Train Kills Lady. The train which .brought Secretary of State and Mrs. Bryan and Senator Luke Lea into Asheville, Southern No. 14, ran over and instantly killed Miss Annie E. Williams, of Gainesville, Fla., a summer visitor, who was cross ing a small trestle near Swannanoa. A small nephew of Miss Williams, who was with her, saw the train approach ing, drew back from the trestle and escaped. The engineer did not see the lady in time to stop his engine. ' Tar Hee!s Granted Patents. Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington patent attorneys, report the grant to citizens of North Carolina of the fol lowing patents: 3. F. Christopher, Asheville, scale; G. A. N. Coppedge, Henderson, dry closet; Joseph Lsisch, Tryon, player-piano; Joseph Leisch, Tryon, power-pneumatic for player pianos; Enoch Ludford, Jr., Elizabeth City, sheave-block; George L. Self, Asheville, twine cutter; J. W. Tatum, Angier, electric signaling system. Interstate Commission Evidence. After spending the greater part of two days at Asheville hearing a great mass of technical evidence in the pro test of lumbermen of western North Carolina over the enforcement of the milling-in-transit regulations by the Southern Railway Company, Examin er C. R. Marshall of the . interstate commerce commission adjourned the hearing until September S. He-went to Greenville, S. C, where he will at tend another hearing before return ing to his headquarters at Washing ton. Narrow Escape From Injury. At Kernersville Engineer E. E. Har ris and Firemen Ben Miller, on a pas senger train between Greensboro and Winston-Salem had a narrow escape from serious Injury by the Dlowlng ou: of a steam pipe in the boiler. The train was pulling into the Kerners ville station when the accident oc curred. The engine was "killed" at once and a freight engine secured to take the train into Winston-Salem. Fireman Miller was painfully scalded and the accident created considerable excitement. A MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN For North Carolina Being Considered By Ministers and Laymen Inter ested In Mission Cause. Charlotte. Ministers and laymen interested in the mission cause, met at Hanna Hall for the purpose of con sidering plans with reference to or ganization for a united missionary campaign in North Carolina, and the advisability of holding a laymen's con ference in Charlotte. Besides about 20 laymen the minis ters present were: Rev. D. H. Rolston, of the First Presbyterian church; Rev. Dr. Marr, of Trinity Methodist church; Rev. R. E. Hough, of Knox Presbyte rian church, and Rsv. E. G. Carson, of Villa 'Heights A. R. P. church Mr M. B. Spier presided at the meeting. Mr. L. B. Padgett, of Greensboro, state secretary of the North Carolina branch of the Laymen's Movement, was present. Mr. Padgett met with the ministers in their regular weekly meeting and suggested the having of the meeting at this time. After considerable discussion it wa3 decided to have anotner meeting in a few. days at which time action in reaard to tho eomnaie-.n. and confer ence for Charlotte will be takenr The plan discussed is to "hold con ferences or conventions at about 20 different points In the state, to launch a great campaign in the interest of missions home and foreign. The idea originated at a great meet ing in New York on the 19th of March last. Mr. Padgett was present at the meeting. He caught the4.spark of en thusiasm and it is his.-purpose to kin dle it into a frame throughout this state. Connect Brunswick and New Hanover. In an election held recently Bruns wick county voted by a unanimous ma jority in favor of the project to bridge Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers, in accordance with a compromise agree ment reached among prominent citi zens of New Hanover and Brunswick counties in conference in Raleigh during the session of the last legisla ture. The purpose of the election was to get an expression of the atti tude of the citizens of Brunswick on the proposlton to spend $40,000, or so much thereof a3 may be needed, to bridge "the Brunswick river, condition ed, however, upon New Hanover ex pending $250,000, or so much as may be needed, for a bridge over the Cape Fear river at Wilmington and the con struction cf an improved highway connecting the two rivers. States Trust Company Official Freed. A verdict of not guilty wa3 render ed in Wake court' In the case against C. H. Bowlds of Wilmington, secretary-treasurer of the States Trust Company, charged with false reports to the corporation commission that the capital stock of the Bank of Mac clesfield was paid in at the time of opening for business. Two other cases against him, one for false en tries as to stock of the Macclesfield bank and the other for aiding and abet ting Cashier Dimier Lafoon in similar entries as to the Bank of Clareniont, yere called and rather than to have to give heavy bond for trial at the next court, plea3 of nol contenderee were entered and prayer for judgment was continued on the payment of the costs. . . North Carolina New Enterprises. A charter was issued to a corpor ation ot be known as the Wilmington Beach Corporation, which is organ ized' with a capital stock of-$50,000. This corporation 13 empowered to develop the real estate on the North Carolina' beaches, and to erect pleas ure resorts there. .The following are fhe stockholders in the corporation: u. W. Davis, J. J. Hopkins, C. C. Chadbourn, C. E. Greenmayer and D. .N Chadwick of 'Wilmington. ' To Penitentiary for Fifteen Years. The trial of Barfield Prevatt, charg ed with the murder of Emroy McNeill In Lumberton March 29, was conclud ed several days ago, when Prevatt was sentenced to the penitentiary for 15 years, the jury, after three-hours' deliberation, having given a verdict of murder in the second degree. North Carolina Railroad Directors. The former board of directors of the North Carolina railroad met recently In Hotel Guilford. No matters of im portance eraept the claim of the Nor folk. Southern for - right-of-way at Charlotte and the proposal of the Sea board Air Line to use the tracks of both railroads for common travel, so that all the trains on either track would, go in the same direction were considered. These matters were re ferred to the new, board. The stock holders met with Col. J. T. Morehead in the chair. j New Lenoir to Hickory, Road. For some weeks the matter of changing the road from' Lenoir to Hickory has been under considera tion. At the last meeting of the coun ty commissioners the committee ap pointed to select a new route for a section of the road just out of the town unanhrrousty'agreed to make the change. The new road will leave the old road at a point of about three quarters of a mile from town and cross the lands of the Norwoods and Edmund Jones, Jr., and re-enter the old road at a point near Jone3 mill. BANKERS ADJOURN G. A. HOLDERNESS TO HEAD THE BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA. OTHER OFFICERS ELECTED Currency Bill Attacked. Virginia Marr Makes Speech Against It and El wood Cox Offers Resolution Calling For Amendment Which is Adopted. Asheyille. The final meeting of the seventeenth annual convention of the North Carolina Bankers' Association, which had been in session here for several days, came to a close with the election of officers and the trans action of a great deal of business of importance to the organization. The officens who will serve during the com ing year, having been elected by the unanimous vote of tlhe convention, are as follows i President,' George A. Hol derness, of Tarboro; first vice presi dent, Thomas E. Cooper, of Wilming ton; second vice-president, J. L. Arm field, of Thomas ville; third vice pres ident, W. S. Blakeney, of Monroe; secretary and treasurer, W. A. Hunt, of Henderson. The members of the executive committee -whose terms ex pired at the present annual gathering will be succeeded as follows: E. C. Rea, of Edenton; T. A Uzzell, of New Bern; W. B. Drake, Jr., of Raleigh A. L. Davis, of Burlington; I. F. Craven of Ramseur; E. O. Anderson, of Char lotte. Following the installation of the of ficers, Leake S. Covington, the retir ing president, was presented with a handsome silver service, the presenta tion on behalf of the convention being made by H. E. Litchford, of Raleigh. The greater part of the sessions of the final day of the convention was taken up with the agricultural confer ence, at which speeches were made by Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Flor ida; B. F. Harris, of Illinois; Charles Hall Davis, of Virginia and others. The speakers dealt with the farming industry and its effects on the banking and other busines.3 interests of today, and the speeches were heard with rapt attention. The speakers were heartily applauded and the day's ses sions were considered among the best held. Senator Fletcher devoted his time to the discussion of banking reforms wihich will mean much to the farmers in the way of securing loans at better rates of Interest and dealt at length upon the subject of idle farming lands in the South. ' County Pension Board Meets. Monroe. The county pension board consisting of Clerk of Court Lem mond and Veterans R. V. Houston, P. C. Stinson and B. H. Benton met sev eral days ago. It was shown that dur ing the year just closed 13 of the 137 Confederate soldiers drawing pensions had died and 14 'of the widows of the 109 wldow.s of soldiers had died. At this session of the board nine soldiers and seven widows applied for pension. Two soldiers applied for an increase in pensions. When Is a County Officer Off Duty? Wilmington W7'hen is a county of ficer, from the sheriff down to town ship constable, off duty? This is. a question that is to be determined" by the Supreme court in cases going up from thi3 county. Recently Recorder Furlong held that an officer has not the right to carry a pistol concealed when he is off duty. Then came the question with Sheriff Cowan as to when he is off duty and when he is not. : Officers Raid Moonshine Still. Greensboro. Revenue officers, sta tioned here by Commissioner W.' H. Osborn, aided by the sheriff,' raided a moonshine plant, just across the Guil ford border, in Randolph county re cently. , They found an illicit whiskey manufactory and confiscated a large quantity of the whiskey. Two negroes were arrested and four white men ran so Tapidly in escaping from the offi cers that one of them left his revolver behind. Hodges Under $1,000 Bond. Wilmington. W. H. Hodges, who shot and killed his wife, at their home near Leland,' about six miles west of Wilmington, has been ' placed under $1,000 bond for appearance for trial at the next term of Brunswick county su perior court in September. The coro ner's jury found that the gun was acci dentally discharged, Mr. Hodges stum bling on the steps of his front porch while chasing a man whom he had found at his home . upon his return from Wilmington, where he had a position. ' To Continue State School Hygiene. Gastonia. Dr. L. M. Glenn, of Ga3 tonia, chairman of the Norttti Carolina State Organizing "Committtee of the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene, which is to be held at Buffalo the last week in August, has received a letter from Dr. Thoma3 A. Storey of the College of the City of New York, and secretary-general of the congress, suggesting the continu ance of the state committee for tJhe purpose of establishing a permanent organization in the Interest of better school hygiene.
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