Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — MEN AND WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN AND WOMEN

Edward E. Ayer of Chicago has given $15,000 worth of books to the Newberry j Library of that city. William Peagues, a negro Baptist j preacher of Chesterfield, S. C., is the fath- I er of forty-three children. Austin Gallaher, doubtless the last; of ■ the boyhood friends of Abraham Lincoln, ; lives at Hodgenville, Ky., and is in feeble j health. Ex-Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson strongly commends the efforts of the League of American Wheelmen tOjgeei'ty better highways throughout the countfy. Six of Europe's queens smoke, the Dowager Empress of Russia, the Queen of Portugal, the Queen of Roumania, the Regent of Spain, the Empress of Austria and the Queen of Italy.