Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

The most distinguished woman at the scene of hostilities in South Africa is Lady Sarah Wilson, sister of the late

Lord Randolph Churchill, who is reported as making a desperate ride 'across country from Kimberley, where she is busy nursing the wounded soldiers inside the intrench-

ments. Her father, the seventh Duke of Marlborough, had five sons and six daughters. Only two of the sons lived to be men. One of them was Lord Randolph, the other succeeded to the Dukedom, and his son is the present and ninth Duke. Lady Sarah Wilson, says the Chicago Tribune, is therefore a great aunt of the present Duke, who married Consuelo Vanderbilt. Perhaps few people know that the ashes of John Paul Jones, one of the most distinguished'heroes of the Ameri-

ican revolution, are buried somewhere in Paris. Exactly where nobody knows. After leaving the American service because of some alleged grievance, Jones enlisted in the French service, and dying shortly afterwards, was buried in the

French capital. Efforts to locate the tomb of the great naval officer have failed up to date, but with increased vigilance it is thought that the discovery can be made in the course of time by carefully inspecting the graveyards of Paris. Recently the Philadelphia Times has commenced to agitate the matter by suggesting that close search be instituted for the grave of John Pgul Jones, and in the event the quest is successful, that the body be brought back to this country and buried in Washington, D. C. Twelve governors and many other distinguished public men have indorsed the enterprise., Samuel Greeley, a commission merchant of Chicago, testified before the National Industrial Commission in ses-

sion there, that a combination of five ~ wealthy grain men, of which Philip D. Armour is the directing genius, controls the price of fanners’ products. Armour, he says, can dictate his rate'' of freight on any railroad in or out of Chicago. This combination between railroads and

elevator operators has practically killed competition in the grain market in the West, and has Wt its promoters with a monopoly of the market. By hoarding immense quantities of grain in the market center it has given rise to the professional bear speculator, whose business it is to hammer down the market, and has brought into existence and made safe the bucket shop.' While Paris was ringing with the news of the Boer victories the other day the cable reports that Sir Edmund Monson,

the British ambassador to France, showed his unconcern at the news by taking his usual afternoon drive in the Bois. Sir Edmund has been called “The Eye of the Empire in France.” He occupies the most important position among English diplomats, and

1 is constantly called upon to exercise -the. utmost tact and skill. He was appointed to Paris in 1897 and lives with his wife and children in the magnificent palace once occupied by Pauline, the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sir Edmund has been in the diplomatic service for thirtythree years. During the Spanish-Ameri-can war he took advantage of an opportunity at a public banquet to warn France in diplomatic language of the probable results of a European coalition against the United States. The college year has so far advanced that at most of the institutions of learning each secret fraternity has picked out

the men K wishes to join and has secured their pledges. Just now the luckless freshmen are being initiated into the mysteries of the various fraternities. The picture shows a candidate at the University of Michigan going down the main street of Ann Arbor attired in a

ridiculous costume, carrying a bird cage and announcing to all passers that he “is fresh, very fresh.’ Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn., received a donation of $70,009 from Janies Jennings Mo Comb of New York. Tom Givedens’ two sons, 5 and 7, while playing in the yard. Eminence, Ky., found an old vial and drank water out of it. They, died from poison. . John Millman, Cincinnati, refused to give his money to three thieves and Was fatally shot. Oklahoma wants to be admitted immediately as a State.

Raflroadlmt Under Difficulties. A Bulawayo paper records a sew method of pushing a train over a heavily * flooded bridge. A correspondent writes that when he wished to go ’over there were three or four feet of water in the river, and consequently the engines could not cross, as the water would have extinguished the fires. The method adopted was to make a train equal In length to the width of the river, and then an engine was placed at the ■ear, which hustled the train across the river, so that it extended its full width. Another engine—or, more literally speaking, a brace of engines—was waiting on the far side, and these were coupled to the train and dragged it out. It was a new way of fording a river by rail. The bridge at the Shashi has been completely washed away, and at one time the water was eight feet' over the old bridge.

PAUL JONES.

SIR EDMUND MONSON.

P. D. ARMOUR.

GETTING INITIATED.