Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — IN-THE-PUBLIC-EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN -THE -PUBLIC-EYE

When President McKinley selected Mrs. Potter Palmer to act as representative of American women at the Paris exposition he conferred an honor upon the woman who is generally conceded to be best fitted for it. Mrs. Palmer is an ideal type of the American woman. She is handsome, graceful, tactful—a both leader. For years her word has been law in Chicago society and since acting as president of the Woman's Board of World’s

Fair Managers in 1893 her name has become well known all over the epuntry. Last year she took up a summer residence at Newport and her villa was the moAt popular at this famous resort. She is generally credited with having made the match between her niece, Miss Julia Dent Grant, and Count Cantacuzene, the rich young Russian nobleman, and it was at her Newport mansion that the brilliant wedding took place. Julian D. Fairchild is one of the few men of Brooklyn who have had the pleasure of declining a $25,000 a year salary.

says the New York Herald. Mr. Fairchild was offered the presidency of the Brooklyn Trust Company a few days ago and was told that if he accepted the salary would be made $25,000 a year. He

has declined. Mr. Fairchild was president of the E. Frank Coe Company of Manhattan w-hen, in May, 1893, he was elected president of the Kings County Trust Company, to succeed Joseph C. Hendrix. Mr. Fairchild’s salary then was fixed at $15,000. It has since been raised to $20,000. Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Cape Colony and the Queen's high commissioner for South Africa, has occupied these two positions for only three years, yet he has endowed them—prominent as they have always been—with an importance which they have never had beforb. The

governor of the Cape is a remarkably able man in a variety of ways. He was educated in Germany and Oxford and krns once pronounced by the dean of St. Paul’s to be “the finest flower of human Culture which had been reared hi the university in this generation.” At 44 (he ia now but 47) he had risen to high eminence in British politics. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake la about to organize a second woman’s suffrage assoriation. Mrs. Blake was the defeated

candidate for the presidency of the National Ruff rage Association after the abdication of Rusan B. Anthony. When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded to that office Mrs. Blake’s friends openly threatened a second organisation, holding that she by reason of

long service and seal in the cause was logically entitled to that honor. The new body of suffragists will call themselves the National Legislative Association. In Ran Francisco the Board of Health has created the position of assistant city physician, with a salary of SIOO a month, and put it in the hands of Dr. Beatrice Hinkle. Her duties will be the care of sick women and children in the public institutions. The French have the exclusive right to carry on researches in Persia, but half of the finds are to belong to that country. At Folkstone, England, an undertaker rode a bicycle on the handlebar of which was strapped a coffin containing a child.

MRS. POTTER PALMER.

J. D. FAIRCHILD.

am Ai.rnr.D muwkr.

MRS. L. BLAKF.