Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

•The English people are looking for the tnen' who are responsible for the deplorably inadequate conditiop oft their big

army in South Artica, and they have fpund onq in the person of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, to whose perverse parsimony much of the trouble is directly charged. Etc has drawn the pursestrings of the nation so tightly that

enough money to properly equip the torch and transport it with' sufficient speed tq the theater; of warj-il not J|o be had. He is not over populaf with, ms countrymen} many of Whom call him in contempt, “Mike, the Marplot.” This use of the diminutive in his name has done more tq cast ridicule on the eminent statesman thftn all the criticisms of his enemies. The appointment of Adelbert S. Hay, son of Secretary of State Hay, as United States consul 'gt Pretoria to succeed Mr.

Macrum has been received with satisfaction by Englishmen • whose relatives are confined at Pretoria as prisoners of war, In times of peace the position of the consular agent at Pretoria is not an important one. His duties include the

issuing, of consular certificates on all American goods imported into the Transivaal, and he is also supposed to look after the interests of the 4,000 or more Americans who make their homes in Pretoria or in the country thereabouts. As there is practically nothing exported from the Transvaal to the Upited States he has littlp to do in that direction.

These two famous American women ar* the, guests of Gecil Rhodes, .the diamond king, in the beleaguered city of Kimberley, South Africa. Miss Kuess-

ner is the greatest miniature painter i* the world. Sheds an Indiana girl. Mrs. Banks is a novelist and newspaper correspondent, and was bred in old Kentucky.

It is said that James R; Keene, the Wall street operator, has made $5,000,000 by the recent panic in the stock

market. It is learned, too, that Mrs. Keene is in sole enjoyment of $2,500,000 of it. Keene is now believed to be worth $20,000,000. One-half of all of Keene’s winnings are his wife’s to keep forever, by virtue of an agreement made between them years ago. It

has been faithfully kept, and Mrs. Keene, by reason of the shrewdness of her hu»band, is $2,500,000 richer than she was a few’months ago.

The Duchess d’Uzes, who has indignantly repudiated the statement that she is backing the Boer recruiting movement

in this cotmtry, with which her name has been associated, is one of the wealthiest aristocrats of France and one of the noblest. She ia the owner of the famous vineyard and champagne plant of Cliqudt, which she inherited from her maternal grand-

mother. She maintains several immense establishments. The duchess is a daughter of the family of Rochebouart-Morte-mart. She was married at 19 to the Due d’Uzes, one of the most celebrated statesmen of his time, ’ i . Rev. J. J. Axtell, the Congregational

minister of Royal Oak. Mich., gained much notoriety by his prize ring encounter with Gus Dondero, a saloonkeeper of that place, recently. The saloon man accused him of cowardice and dared him to fight. Reports have it the divine uncorked all kinds of hooks, jabs and crosses, nnd won, hands down. The Detroit Women’s

Christian Temperanep Union approved his action at a meeting held afterword, I —r—tri— M ' L \

S[?]HICKS-BEACH.

ADELBERT S. HAY.

JAMES R. [?]EENR.

DUCHESS D’UZES.

REV. J. J. AXTELL.